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 ...

Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine ...

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.).

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 ...

Outrage and disbelief met a report in the December 30 Irish Times that British TV station Channel 4 was commissioning a comedy set to the backdrop of the Irish Famine. The Famine lasted from 1845 ...

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, ...

Irish government has confirmed that the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna will host the National Famine Commemoration 2026 ...

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 ...