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

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 in Belfast are finally set to be ...

The historic photo was displayed as part of The Irish Potato Famine exhibit hosted at Dublin's Stephen's Green Shopping Center, Dublin. The exhibition was curated by historian Gerard McCarthy ...

it is important to remember that 2022 also marks the 177th anniversary of the start of the Irish Potato Famine (1845 to 1852). For many, the term "taking the soup" is synonymous with the Famine story.

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. Tsunami warning after huge 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits Tonga's coast Canazei, Italy – A ...

The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...

So begins, Rot, Padraic X Scanlan’s disturbing and insightful account of the Irish famine. The “Great ... on the subsistence crop of the miracle potato was a utilitarian innovation.

He would have been forgotten but that, in 1890, he composed a lengthy account of the Famine ... of Irish land and labour within a shrinking and accelerating world”. The potato, of course ...

While St. Patrick's Day is mostly a day of celebration – it also gives us an excuse to learn more about Irish history. In his new book, "Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine," Historian ...