The Great Famine, which took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, is something many of us learned about to some degree in school. It was a tale with all the makings of a great and terrible story ...

Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history, second only to the Black Death pandemic in death toll estimates - the Great Famine. Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine ...

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Queen Victoria - who was dubbed Ireland's 'Famine Queen' by revolutionary Maud Gonne - died on January 22, 1901. The Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had a deep ...

The Great Famine, also known as The Great Hunger, is a significant chapter in Irish history and a tragedy that had enduring effects on the nation. There are numerous ways to learn about this ...

Fiona Slevin grew up in Mohill and is the author of Hereditary Virtues: A History of Lough Rynn. Here she gives us a glimpse of Leitrim life after the famine 150 years ago, Ireland had emerged from ...

John Kelly’s The Graves are Walking: The History of the Great Irish Famine reflects this school of thought. But Coogan takes the argument a step further and argues that British policy, as carried out ...

The source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine has finally been identified. Researchers from North Carolina State […] The post The Source Of The Deadly Irish Potato Famine Has Ties To ...

Next you’ll be telling me you had a Holocaust.’ At which point I had to explain gently that this was the very term republicans and much of Irish America were now using for the Great Famine of the late ...

From Cork, after a day of heavy driving, it was time to stop at the town of Listowel. A bustling market-town of 4,000, ...

The crypt also provides the final resting place for around 2,000 men, women and children who fled Ireland during the great famine and arrived in Liverpool, only to die during the typhus and ...