Article Photos: Irish famine museum opening at Conn. university



This image, provided by Quinnipiac University, of an 1847 oil on canvas painting by Daniel MacDonald titled "Irish Peasant Children," is among the artwork on display in Ireland's Great Hunger Museum on the school's campus in Hamden, Conn. School officials said the museum, which will open on Oct. 11, 2012, has the world’s largest collection of visual art, artifacts and printed materials related to the famine from 1845-52, when blight destroyed virtually all of Ireland's potato crops. (AP Photo/Quinnipiac University)

This image, provided by Quinnipiac University, of an 1847 oil on canvas painting by Daniel MacDonald titled "Irish Peasant Children," is among the artwork on display in Ireland's Great Hunger Museum on the school's campus in Hamden, Conn. School officials said the museum, which will open on Oct. 11, 2012, has the world’s largest collection of visual art, artifacts and printed materials related to the famine from 1845-52, when blight destroyed virtually all of Ireland's potato crops. (AP Photo/Quinnipiac University)