Statistics show that young, single Irish women were the largest group to immigrate to the U.S. in the late 19th and early ...

Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

The first year the potato blight ravaged through the Irish crop, sparking the start of the famine, is commemorated in "1845: Memento Mori" A new blown-glass exhibit opens in Seattle on Oct 18, 2019, ...

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 ...

Why, until now, has there been so little evidence of the Great Hunger of 1845 to 1849 on the streets, parks, and monuments of Ireland? A former Hollywood scriptwriter, the people of a Cork village, ...

Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine ...

Ireland in 1860 by Bartholomew Colles Watkins. Bartholomew Colles Watkins/Wikimedia Maggie O’Farrell’s exquisite new novel, ...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by streaming the Irish Film Festival, Boston (March 17-21), which features among its many fine documentaries Ruan Magan’s “The Hunger” (available from March 18 at 3 p.m.).

It would be wrong to say that Irish people do not commemorate the Great Famine. Since Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom a century ago, generations of schoolchildren have learned that ...