[1][2][3] In addition to literature and artifacts, the museum contains the world's largest collection of Great Hunger-related art by both contemporary and 19th-century Irish and Irish-American artists.

A small sister gallery, containing literature and statues related to the Famine, is located within a special section of the Arnold Bernhard Library on the Mount Carmel campus of Quinnipiac University itself.

These problems were worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic and in August 2021, the university's board of trustees announced the museum would remain closed following a vote.

A Norwalk-based committee Save Ireland's Great Hunger Museum was formed, who wrote an open letter to Lahey's successor Judy Olian and have held in-person demonstrations.

[9] In March 2022, it was announced the collection would move to Fairfield in partnership with the Gaelic-American Club (GAC), a plan that was unanimously voted for by the Quinnipiac Board of Trustees.