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One million died, two million fled during the Great Famine, Ireland’s darkest chapter. One million people died. Two million ...
A new poll by Israel's left leaning newspaper Haaretz found that 82% of Israeli Jews favour expulsion of all Palestinians ...
During the Great Famine (1845-52), at least 1m people died of starvation in Ireland and about 1.5m fled. In 1847, Britain’s prime minister, Lord John Russell, likened the spiralling calamity to ...
Three United Nations agencies warned on Thursday of looming famine in an area of South Sudan facing violent conflict. People in 11 of 13 counties in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state now face ...
“Are you staying or going?” It’s the sort of question someone asks you when you’re fretting indecisively inside the half-open ...
We look at the story and history behind it and why it's so important. The Famine Memorial in Dublin Ireland is a collection of statues designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and ...
Armstrong, reading aloud from a pamphlet, informed them about an event taking place on the far side of the Atlantic and of no obvious interest to the Choctaw people: the Great Famine in Ireland.
Kneecap have shared a defiant message ahead of band member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh’s first appearance in court on a terror charge.
A senior Conservative MP has denied mocking the Irish famine during a debate in the House of Commons. Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith was accused of making an "offensive" remark about ...
Kerry will host Cavan in Killarney next weekend in one of four All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-finals, with the four ...
On an unseasonably cold, rainy late-May morning, a group of actors and musicians gathered at the Blyth Festival’s rehearsal ...