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.

As the 180th anniversary of the Great Famine is marked, Belfast artist Lise McGreevy tells Helen McGurk why she is shining a ...

From Ireland's Great Hunger to the brave Irish heroes of the US Civil War, Niall O'Dowd examines how Irish Famine emigrants changed the landscape of American history. Niall O'Dowd, Founder of ...

When Anelise Hanson Shrout was in graduate school at New York University, she read an account about how the Choctaw Nation donated to Ireland during the Great Famine, not long after the U.S. federal ...

This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick on Saturday, May 17, 2025. The annual public ceremony, which will be broadcast on RTÉ News Now channel, will ...

The Emigrant’s Walk starts like many hikes: in a dusty little parking area by a wooden trailhead sign and map. As we depart, ...

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 ...

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Rarely has a ship been bailed out so often before leaving port. Now, after three years and many millions, the Jeanie Johnston is finally ready to set sail to the New World this ...

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 ...