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

Ireland in 1860 by Bartholomew Colles Watkins. Bartholomew Colles Watkins/Wikimedia Maggie O’Farrell’s exquisite new novel, ...

Set in the aftermath of the famine, the Hamnet author’s family saga folds in myth and folklore ...

The Taoiseach has described the Great Famine as the most traumatic event in Ireland's recorded history. Micheál Martin said nowhere suffered greater mortality than Connacht with the loss of nearly ...

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

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 ...

Ireland's International Commemoration of the Great Irish Famine will be hosted in Chicago this year, Ireland's Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, and Chair of the National Famine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At a time when evictions have surpassed 19th-century levels, it is ill-advised to suggest lessons can’t be learned from the ...