There's one indisputable fact in the ongoing conflict over Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut – the museum has been shut for the past two years, and will continue to be closed to the public for at least another 24 months.
By Lynn Bushnell Special to Boston Irish Last August, the President of Quinnipiac University, Judy Olian, announced plans to close the university’s Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum just shy of its 10th anniversary, citing expenses that far outweighed the benefits to its students and the community at large.