The Irish History Podcast’s third installment in the Great Famine series – life in Ireland on the brink This is the third installment of the Irish History Podcast’s Great Famine series. The Great ...
Ireland’s population has hit 5 million for the first time in 170 years — a time when the great Potato Famine ravaged the country. The republic’s population was estimated at 5.01 million in April, the ...
Scientists have identified the pathogen that caused the potato blight of 1845, one of the factors which led to the countries devastating Great Hunger, killing one million people. The DNA extracted ...