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

the population of Ireland today is smaller than it was in 1841. The potato famine also affected Irish-speaking people, and accelerated the Englishification of Irish society. It has been noted that ...

As we embark on another important year of commemorations surrounding Ireland's Civil War ... the 177th anniversary of the start of the Irish Potato Famine (1845 to 1852). For many, the term ...

The historic photo was displayed as part of The Irish Potato Famine exhibit hosted ... which is considered to have been the worst year of the Famine in Ireland,” McCarthy told the Irish Independent.

The potato, of course ... Prize for Nonfiction Peter Gray’s The Irish Famine (1995) is the best short introduction to the horror that overwhelmed Ireland in the mid-1800s and no big book ...

There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that destroyed potato crops in ... by throwing light on Ireland’s curious status ...

Historian Dr Robyn Atcheson said the official marking of the graves is "long overdue" The unmarked graves of thousands of people who died during the Irish famine in Belfast are finally set to be ...