During the Famine it was not uncommon to find the living and the dead stretched side by side on filthy straw on the ‘sleeping ...

This has been fuelled by the sudden, brutal and devastating suspension of USAID and America’s support to global development, ...

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‘L et Ireland go, with God’s blessing and a shake of the hand’, wrote Jerome K. Jerome in May 1920. This was a crucial year ...

“The people are actually starving and living in ruins,” the Evening Star of Washington reported on Nov. 29, 1914, in a story ...

Author turns to new and often-overlooked source material for a fresh examination of the nation before independence ...

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The source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine has finally been identified. Researchers from North Carolina State […] The post The Source Of The Deadly Irish Potato Famine Has Ties To ...

Groundbreaking new research identifies the Andes as the origin of the Irish potato famine pathogen, reshaping efforts to ...

The Republic’s population could grow to 6.4 million by 2042 and the counties of Kildare, Louth, Meath and Wicklow will see the largest regional growth, new data show. The south-west, the mid-west, and ...