Goose Village famine rock marking mass grave. Photo: Éanna Mackey. When most people think of Irish emigration, a familiar map unfolds in the mind. Today, the great draws are Melbourne and Sydney; in the 1970s and ’80s, it was London’s endless sprawl. Before that, the tide of Irish migration flowed powerfully toward North America, filling the streets of Chicago, shaping the neighbourhoods of Boston, and…
