An Irish minister who delivered an impassioned speech at the 2026 International Famine Commemoration said that the British government was to blame for the Great Famine. Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for ...

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 ...

Although scientists have known that a funguslike organism caused the potato blight that triggered the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, they... An international group of plant pathologists has ...

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 ...

It was a gesture born of suffering and kindness carried over generations. In 1847, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma sent $170 to Ireland during the Great Famine — a time of mass starvation on the island ...

He’s a chip off the old block. A new dad who comes from a long line of cops and firefighters — dating back to the Irish potato famine — was promoted at an FDNY ceremony Friday along with dozens of ...

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 ...