Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

It is about this time each year when my thoughts wander back to the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations I have enjoyed in the past ...

Donations to Irish people from indigenous communities in Canada during the Great Famine - valued at around €12,000 today - ...

An Taibhse comes from on-the-rise writer-director John Farrelly and is set during the tail end of the Great Famine.

Pat Uniacke is a champion hurler, not a golfer, but on Sunday he drove his construction truck up from San Bruno just to stand at an overlook of the 17th tee at San Francisco’s Lincoln Park Golf Course ...