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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A chillingly intact Irish famine workhouse that still stands in Laois, has been awarded €200,000 to preserve it into the ...

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 ...

There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that ... His new book begins by throwing light on Ireland’s curious status—though ...