The Taoiseach has described the Great Famine as the most traumatic event in Ireland's recorded history. Micheál Martin said ...

Ireland's National Famine Commemoration will be hosted at the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna, Co Galway, on Sunday, May 17. The Irish Workhouse Centre, located within the historic Portumna ...

Irish minister Patrick O'Donovan said that 'modern dictators' could follow the handbook of the British government to learn ...

Lessons of “compassion, solidarity and humanity” learned from the Irish famine will “continue to resonate” with future ...

Lessons of “compassion, solidarity and humanity” learnt from the Irish Famine will “continue to resonate” with future ...

At a time when evictions have surpassed 19th-century levels, it is ill-advised to suggest lessons can’t be learned from the ...

Ireland's 2026 International Famine Commemoration will be hosted in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on Sunday, May 10. The International Famine Commemoration is held annually to honor the victims of An Gorta ...

Although scientists have known that a funguslike organism caused the potato blight that triggered the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, they... An international group of plant pathologists has ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

Maggie O'Farrell's new novel, Land, is published after the success of the film adaptation of Hamnet.

Outlines the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the famine to occur and charts the first 3 years of the crisis in Ireland and Europe. In Ireland we see how the British government’s ...

At the famine's conclusion, 1 million have perished and the survivors build new lives. The British government decides that further famine relief must be paid through raised land rates, forcing ...