A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

From the Famine to Fair City, it's clear that the relationship between the Irish and the Choctaw Nations is being actively ...

The museum tells the story of the Great Famine through the personal tragedies of the tenants on the Strokestown Estate and of their landlords, the once prosperous Pakenham Mahon family.

North Carolina Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would impose work requirements on people enrolled in the ...

Ireland's rich history is often commemorated and celebrated through events, art, and education, with some residual tensions still present to this day. From the Easter Rising to the Great Famine, there ...

Belfast City Council is planning to recognise the burial ground thousands of people who died during the Irish famine in ...

In a preface to the monumental “Atlas of the Great Irish Famine,” published in 2012, the former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, observed that “for many years the event was cloaked in ...

Great Famine and Irish independence struggle linked ... Scanlan notes that eviction is a potent political issue in contemporary Ireland, and he references the furore in 2023 when the artist ...

As a result, poverty was widespread in Ireland. When the potato famine occurred in 1845, the potato harvest in Ireland was poor, and many people suffered from hunger. Seeing this, British Prime ...

Historian Dr Robyn Atcheson said the official marking of the graves is "long overdue" The unmarked graves of thousands of people who died during the Irish famine ... "The 'great and the good ...