Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described the Great Hunger of 1845-1852 as the most devastating and traumatic event in Irish history. The Taoiseach was speaking at Ireland's National Famine Commemoration ...

Bethany Sheffer wants you to book passage on a coffin ship. Well, a re-creation of one, for a voyage into the history of Irish immigration to America that very much resonates today. She’s the ...

The Irish potato famine of 1845–52 resulted in more than a million deaths. Another million people were displaced, and Ireland’s population was reduced by about 25%. The cause of widespread potato rot ...

In 1845, a devastating blight killed the potato crop in Ireland, and famine swept the nation. As crops continued to fail from 1845 to 1852, a million Irish people died of starvation and disease, and ...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by streaming the Irish Film Festival, Boston (March 17-21), which features among its many fine documentaries Ruan Magan’s “The Hunger” (available from March 18 at 3 p.m.).

In the decade following the 1845 appearance of the potato blight in Ireland, over 900,000 Irish emigrants entered New York, which was the biggest port in America. Later on, a census taken in 1855 ...

DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - More than 300 lots of letters and reports dating from Ireland's Great Famine years will go under the hammer this week in the first auction of its kind, which has aroused much ...

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) – While he grew up in New York, John Lahey recalls, the Irish famine was almost a taboo topic. But these days, the Quinnipiac University president and former grand marshal of the ...

Former Irish American Heritage Museum head Ryan D. Mahoney is the new executive director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, university officials announced Thursday. Mahoney, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky An investigation is underway into the shuttered Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at ...