The Taoiseach has described the Great Famine as the most traumatic event in Ireland's recorded history. Micheál Martin said ...

Ireland's National Famine Commemoration will be hosted at the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna, Co Galway, on Sunday, May ...

Lessons of “compassion, solidarity and humanity” learnt from the Irish Famine will “continue to resonate” with future ...

Lessons of “compassion, solidarity and humanity” learned from the Irish famine will “continue to resonate” with future ...

At the Irish Workhouse Centre in County Galway, the Taoiseach said the Famine memorial is about remembering “an entire society” and the millions whose lives were shattered by the Great Famine. The ...

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

Ireland is facing the highest number of evictions "since the famine", Sinn Féin has said. Data from the Residential Tenancies ...

Scientists traced the Irish Potato Famine pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, to the Andes and discovered it belongs to a much ...

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 ...

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 ...

Outlines the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the famine to occur and charts the first 3 years of the crisis in Ireland and Europe. In Ireland we see how the British government’s ...