The National Famine Way™ Roadshow goes on tour during March 2026 visiting seven locations along the route of the long distance walk.

Tomm Moore was at Cartoon Movie to tease his upcoming animated film about an Irish refugee and a Choctaw boy on a magical ...

Editor's Note: The below letter was shared with IrishCentral by signatory Dr John Cunningham of University of Galway today, Friday, March 15. The Irish Famine of c. 1846-50 resonates through Irish and ...

SOME 40 years ago last summer, two massive concerts took place in London and Philadelphia to raise money for the famine-stricken people in Africa. Irish people donated more than €8million to Live ...

New research from the Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University and Queen's Business School in Belfast has examined the impact of the Great Irish Famine (1845–1852) on human height.

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

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 ...

Plaque for William Sharman Crawford (1780-1861) unveiled in Crawfordsburn at the Old Inn ...

Author upends more than 150 years of assumptions about the approximately 1.3 million immigrants from Ireland who came to the United States during and just after the Great Famine of the 1840s. Tourists ...

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 ...