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This replica of a Famine-era cabin sits in Gleninchiquin Park in the parish of Tuosist in southwest County Kerry. Hundreds of the parish's residents emigrated to New York in the 1850s.

This image of Faithful Place in central Dublin dates from about 1900, but it would not have looked very different fifty years earlier when the Famine emigrants left Ireland for America.

This image of Cornmarket Street in the city of Cork dates from about 1900, but the square would not have looked very different fifty years earlier.

Ireland's County Cavan, which sent many emigrants to New York, is a lake-filled region of north-central Ireland.

Corlears Hook as it looked around 1875 from a tower of the still incomplete Brooklyn Bridge.