On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

Donor from Ontario, Canada, brings 1859 silver samovar honoring Famine hero Dr. Dan Donovan back to Skibbereen Heritage ...

New research from the Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University and Queen's Business School in Belfast has examined the impact of the Great Irish Famine (1845–1852) on human height. The ...

Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. The premise of Rot, Padraic S. Scanlan’s comprehensive, elegantly ...

DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - More than 300 lots of letters and reports dating from Ireland's Great Famine years will go under the hammer this week in the first auction of its kind, which has aroused much ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

The Shankill Area Social History Group dedicated a stone memorial to the victims of the Great Famine, just inside the gates of the Shankill Road Graveyard. On Monday, a Great Hunger memorial was ...

Strokestown Park and the National Famine Museum in County Roscommon have received their first-ever honour at the CIE Tours Awards of Excellence. The heritage attraction was recognised at the 34th ...