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

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

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

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 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 ...

Set in the aftermath of the famine, the Hamnet author’s family saga folds in myth and folklore ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described the Great Hunger of 1845-1852 as the most devastating and traumatic event in Irish history. The Taoiseach was speaking at Ireland's National Famine Commemoration ...

This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place at National Famine Museum in Roscommon and will include performances by musician Declan O'Rourke. The 2022 National Famine Commemoration will ...

Ancestral or so-called DNA tourism has always been important to Ireland's incoming tourism trade, fueled by wholesale emigration during the Great Famine of the mid-1800s and the resulting diaspora.

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...