THE Irish famine was almost a taboo topic while he grew up in New York, John Lahey recalls.
THE Irish famine was almost a taboo topic while he grew up in New York, John Lahey recalls.
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However, now the Quinnipiac University president and former grand marshal of the New York St Patrick's Day parade is determined to show the world the horror and learn from the tragedy.
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, which the Connecticut university is opening to the public on October 11 in Hamden, has the world's largest collection of visual art, artefacts and printed materials related to the famine, college officials say. It is known in Irish as Musaem an Ghorta Mhoir.
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