KEMPEROL
HELPS RESTORE
MONUMENT
TO FORMER
GLORY
Kemper System’s Kemperol 2K-PUR has resolved water infiltration
issues at New York’s Irish Hunger Memorial as part of a multi-
million-pound restoration.
Designed by artist Brian Tolle, the Irish Hunger Memorial
commemorates the Irish famine and migration of 1845-1852
and encourages visitors to contemplate present-day hunger
worldwide.
Representing a rural Irish landscape, its centerpiece comprises
an abandoned 1820’s stone cottage imported from Ireland,
surrounded by stone walls, fallow potato fields and the flora seen
on the north Connacht wetlands.
Stones from each of Ireland’s 32 counties feature on the
monument which is elevated on a limestone plinth. Along the
base are bands of texts separated by layers of imported Kilkenny
limestone. The text, which combines the history of the Great
Famine with contemporary reports on world hunger, is cast as a
shadow onto illuminated frosted glass panels.