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 ...

The Emigrant’s Walk starts like many hikes: in a dusty little parking area by a wooden trailhead sign and map. As we depart, ...

The first year the potato blight ravaged through the Irish crop, sparking the start of the famine, is commemorated in "1845: Memento Mori" A new blown-glass exhibit opens in Seattle on Oct 18, 2019, ...

A search for the 1,490 former tenants forced to emigrate from the estate of Major Denis Mahon at Strokestown Park was the inspiration of the Great Famine Voices Roadshow, now in its second year and ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was spoken primarily by the rural poor; the expansion of state education, which began in the 1830s, meant that English ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. L.D. 1050, a bill that Sen. Louis Luchini, D-Ellsworth, is shepherding ...