The National Famine Way™ Roadshow goes on tour during March 2026 visiting seven locations along the route of the long ...

Plaque for William Sharman Crawford (1780-1861) unveiled in Crawfordsburn at the Old Inn ...

A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. The premise of Rot, Padraic S. Scanlan’s comprehensive, elegantly ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

Thinking about watching 'The Great Irish Famine' on your favorite screen? Trying to locate where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to watch the Pete Lawrence-helmed movie can be tricky so we at ...

DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - More than 300 lots of letters and reports dating from Ireland's Great Famine years will go under the hammer this week in the first auction of its kind, which has aroused much ...

Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

The Great Hunger: 1M dead, 2M fled, & Fenians invading Canada for Ireland is where it led. The Great Hunger, or the potato famine, devastated Ireland, causing 1 million deaths and driving two million ...

A unique concept is rooted in the Irish psyche—respectability. Respectability can mean many things, but it meant only one thing among Irish Famine immigrants: financial security. Whether working as a ...