Books & the Arts / A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall ...

Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine, which was caused by a potato blight, lasted between 1845 and 1849, decimating Ireland's population and resulting in emigration on an ...

Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish history. The Great Famine (1845 to 1852) saw the ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine ... for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 due to the potato ...

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 ...

One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that ... The only crop that failed in Ireland during the Great Hunger was the potato. “Wheat, barley, corn, oats and grazing land ...

Lincoln was one of 15,000 people worldwide to donate money to Ireland during the Great Irish Famine. This is according to evidence unearthed by respected Irish historian Christine Kinealy ...

Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel ...

Dublin, 25 February 1919 - The Chief Secretary of Ireland ... consideration than Great Britain. One consequence of the scarcity of housing in Ireland – described as a ‘famine of houses ...

Those plans represent the San Francisco Irish Great Famine Memorial Plaza ... known widely as the potato famine, that killed 1 million Irish, with a million more fleeing to America to escape ...