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Lincoln was one of 15,000 people worldwide to donate money to Ireland during the Great Irish Famine. This is according ... and from controversial British monarch Queen Victoria.

British policy makers could only imagine relief based on the principles of the free market. But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past. It was a complex and modern political ...

Pataki announced that “history teaches us the Great Irish Hunger was not the ... in the laws of the market to shape the British response to the famine. In its first full year, 1846, Robert ...

As the fastest growing city in Upper Canada, as it was known until 1841, Toronto saw many Irish arrive on its shores. By the end of the 19th century almost one-third of Toronto’s population was born ...

At the height of the Great Irish Famine in 1847, however ... a deliberate act of genocide committed by the British ruling classes. Have you tried Focail and Conundrum? Daily word puzzles designed ...

However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 due to the potato blight. The British ... Great Britain and Australia, but most emigrated to America. Image caption, Many ...

There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that ... and brutality of successive British governments. But reality, as Padraic X.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...

An exhibition about a forgotten Polish hero from the Great Irish Famine, has launched in Tipperary today. Carrick-on-Suir ...