A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. Kennedy slashing 10,000 jobs in health department overhaul Big Changes Are Coming To KFC In ...

Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish history. The Great Famine (1845 to 1852) saw the ...

As a result, poverty was widespread in Ireland. When the potato famine occurred in 1845, the potato harvest in Ireland was poor, and many people suffered from hunger. Seeing this, British Prime ...

The ever-increasing death toll and the need to provide coffins for internments created demands on the finances of the Board ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...

North Carolina Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would impose work requirements on people enrolled in the ...

during Ireland's Famine years of 1845 - 1852. But the woman is not a mere symbol. She was a real person with a real story – and, as a scholarly essay argues, the subject of what was possibly the ...

A new exhibit in the Arnold Bernhard Library highlights the relationship between the Irish and Indigenous people throughout ...

IrishCentral Contributor Loretto Leary reflects on the inaugural Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield’s Founders’ Gala.