Ireland Park, Memorial park at Toronto waterfront, Canada.

Ireland Park is a memorial park on Éireann Quay beside the Canada Malting Silos. Its five bronze figures by Rowan Gillespie include a man with both arms raised, a pregnant woman, a child, a kneeling figure and one lying on the ground. A limestone wall from Kilkenny carries the names of those who died in 1847.

Ireland Park commemorates the roughly 38,000 Irish who fled the Great Famine and landed at Toronto's Rees's Wharf in 1847, a city of about 20,000 people at the time. Over 1,100 of the new arrivals died that year, most in fever sheds during the typhus epidemic. The park was officially opened on June 21, 2007, by President of Ireland Mary McAleese with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David Miller.

The sculptures create a visual bridge between this location and a similar memorial in Dublin, connecting departure and arrival through shared artistic expression. Visitors witness how this artistic conversation spans across the Atlantic.

The park sits along the waterfront and is reachable by walking west on Queens Quay from Bathurst Street, then following the boardwalk past the marina. The route offers open water views as you approach the location.

The limestone wall features 1,100 engraved names of immigrants and Toronto residents, including Bishop Michael Power who died during the 1847 typhus outbreak. This personal inscription method connects individual stories to the larger historical event.