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 ...
Tyler Anbinder didn’t know what he’d find when he started digging into a vast trove of records that had been locked inside a bank — and inaccessible to the public — for nearly 150 years. One detail ...
Irish minister Patrick O'Donovan said that 'modern dictators' could follow the handbook of the British government to learn ...
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, ...
A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. Old Chapel Lane, Skibbereen, County Cork in 1846. The premise of Rot, ...
Ireland's International Commemoration of the Great Irish Famine will be hosted in Chicago this year, Ireland's Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, and Chair of the National Famine ...
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