The Taoiseach has described the Great Famine as the most traumatic event in Ireland's recorded history. Micheál Martin said nowhere suffered greater mortality than Connacht with the loss of nearly ...

Walkers jam the pavement, trying to keep to the left. Like many roads in rural Ireland, this one through the Doolough Valley is narrow. “I can’t wait to spread out,” I whisper to my niece, Shannon.

One of the darkest chapters in Irish history was the Great Famine, but few people know the truth about how it began. The Famine in Ireland lasted from 1845 and 1852, and resulted in an estimated 1 ...

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 ...

Two million Irish people emigrated in the immediate aftermath of the Famine. Of these 64% went to the US and by as early as 1850 the Irish were easily the biggest single ethnicity in the USA. We look ...

Patrick O’Donovan obviously wasn’t around in the 1840s for the great famine in Ireland. But the more the country’s minister for culture, communications and sport researches and studies the subject, ...

Lessons of “compassion, solidarity and humanity” learnt from the Irish Famine will “continue to resonate” with future generations, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. The 19th National Famine ...

The National Famine Way Commemorative Walk, which takes place over six days and traverses six counties, is set to begin on Monday. The six-day walk will begin at the National Famine Museum in ...