An investigation is underway into the shuttered Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University after a group fighting for its reopening raised questions with the state about the future of the ...

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) – While he grew up in New York, John Lahey recalls, the Irish famine was almost a taboo topic. But these days, the Quinnipiac University president and former grand marshal of the ...

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

The National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park in Co. Roscommon is set to host the 2025 Famine Summer School from May 29 to June 1, 2025. This annual international conference brings together scholars, ...

Former Irish American Heritage Museum head Ryan D. Mahoney is the new executive director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, university officials announced Thursday. Mahoney, ...

There’s a statue by sculptor Glenna Goodacre in the entryway to Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum on Whitney Avenue in Hamden that captures the desperation of people fleeing the famine of 1845 to 1852, ...