Canada and the Great Irish Famine is a fascinating collection of essays on disparate aspects of a crisis that today’s ...

Ireland’s shifting population landscape has returned to global attention after a new comparative map reveals how dramatically ...

Climate‑driven shifts due to volcanic activity, and the increase in grain trade helped bring the Black Death to Italian ports ...

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

X-PO has announced the start if its winter/spring lecture series on Thursday December 4th at 8.30 p.m. with a talk entitled “The Great Hunger –Burren and Clare and Ireland”. The guest speaker is ...

The Kilnaboy X-PO will start its winter/spring lecture series on Friday next, December 4 with a talk entitled The Great Hunger –Burren and Clare and Ireland. The guest speaker for this opening talk is ...

One hundred and eighty years after the Great Famine reshaped the island of Ireland, its legacy still echoes in our demographic, cultural and political landscape. It was a catastrophe that stole more ...

It is impossible to understand the history of modern India without taking into account mass famines under British rule. The same thing can be said about another former British possession: Ireland.

Patrick O’Donovan obviously wasn’t around in the 1840s for the great famine in Ireland. But the more the country’s minister for culture, communications and sport researches and studies the subject, ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

In September 1845, a devastating new plant disease swept across Ireland, destroying the potato crops on which the majority of the people depended. Aid from the British government was too little and ...

Extraordinarily effective Hamas propaganda has delegitimized Israel’s right of self-defense by confirming for a world that scorns Israel that its demon is engaged in genocide. It is not, but the same ...