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A project to build a beautiful world class Memorial Space around the Black Rock on the Montreal side of the Victoria Bridge. Fergus Keyes talks about recent developments.This space would remember the 6000+ Irish immigrants, fleeing the Great Hunger in Ireland, that died and were buried in the area in 1847.It would also honor the many Montrealers of every language, religion, and heritage that provided help and comfort to these dying Irish. Many of these \\u201ccaregivers\\u201d also gave their life in this great humanitarian effort.Members of the Montreal local Irish community are optimistic about the prospects for a proposed memorial park to honour Montreal\\u2019s Irish famine victims after meeting with Mayor Val\\xe9rie Plante.Mayor Plante expressed willingness to reroute part of Bridge St. so the park can be created on the site where up to 6,000 Irish immigrants died of typhus in 1847-48. Mayor Plante also indicated she might be willing to reconsider her controversial proposal to name the future R\\xe9seau express m\\xe9tropolitain (REM) station in nearby Griffintown after late premier Bernard Landry, according to people who attended.\\u201cShe said, \\u2018Yes, it\\u2019s our intention to move Bridge St. Yes, we\\u2019re 100 per cent committed to do a study on moving Bridge St.,\\u2019 \\u201d said Victor Boyle, a director of the Montreal Irish Memorial Park Foundation, who attended the meeting with co-director Fergus Keyes. The foundation has been fighting for more than a decade to create a commemorative park on the sitehttp://www.montrealirishmonument.com/