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

Broadway, starring world class Irish dancers and musicians who will transport audiences through the timeline of Irish history ...

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Is there anybody here with any Irish in them, Phil Lynott once asked on Thin Lizzy’s celebrated live album Live and Dangerous ...

On entering the Workhouse in Athy during the famine, the men were separated from the women, the women separated from their ...

From literary landmarks to hidden cultural treasures, Dublin reveals a city shaped by resilience, memory and humanity ...

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Lessons of “compassion, solidarity and humanity” learned from the Irish famine will “continue to resonate” with future generations, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. The 19th National Famine ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: A surge in online claims warning of famine in Gaza is gaining traction across social media and international outlets, but newly surfaced data reviewed by Fox News Digital from the United ...

THE GREAT HUNGER (510 pp.)—Cecil Woodham-Smith—Harper & Row ($6.95). Between the Black Death and Buchenwald, Europe saw nothing like it west of Russia. In the five years of Ireland’s Potato Famine ...

The pathogen that caused the failure of potato crops in 19th-century Ireland was actually a pan-European phenomenon. Why, then, did it have such a devastating effect on the Irish economy and people?