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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Laois County Council meeting in March, Cllr Tuohy asked the council to request the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts ...

Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured ...

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 new Dunbrody Famine Ship experience, in New Ross, County Wexford, tells the story of Irish emigration and the impact of the Great Famine. The new educational tourist attraction is expected to ...

Areas hardest hit by the Great Irish Famine did not experience an expected stunting in height of the population, new academic research has found. The research from Queen’s Business School in Belfast ...

CAMERAS are set to roll on a new film telling the tragic story of the Great Famine in Abbeyleix and its devastating impact for generations. Renowned filmmaker Oliver Fallon visite ...

The Cloughjordan Parish Heritage Group will hold a talk on the impact of the Great Famine on the Cloughjordan and Lower ...