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

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 ...

Irish minister Patrick O'Donovan said that 'modern dictators' could follow the handbook of the British government to learn ...

The National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, and Irish Heritage Trust have launched the Great Famine Voices 2023 season with a new film, The Famine Irish in New Brunswick. It tells the little-known ...

When Anelise Hanson Shrout was in graduate school at New York University, she read an account about how the Choctaw Nation donated to Ireland during the Great Famine, not long after the U.S. federal ...

The immersive National Famine Museum, located in Ireland's Strokestown Park House and Gardens in County Roscommon, reopened following a multimillion-dollar redevelopment. The museum, which brings to ...

At the Irish Workhouse Centre in County Galway, the Taoiseach said the Famine memorial is about remembering “an entire society” and the millions whose lives were shattered by the Great Famine. The ...

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 ...

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 ...