As emotive as the subject may be, Rot moves beyond sentiment, ideology and the false comforts of denial and denunciation.

From RTÉ Radio 1's The History Show, writer Mary Russell tells the story of how the very first Ordnance Survey maps of ...

Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...

His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.

Pre-Confederation British North America became ... Murphy, Ryan, Johnson. The Irish famine gave rise to a movement called Young Ireland, who members swore to free their country from Britain ...

A mother-of-two in Ireland has collected over 3,000 old Irish ... I have recipes dating back to pre-Famine times. "I'm a ...

Lincoln was one of 15,000 people worldwide to donate money to Ireland during the Great Irish Famine. This is according to evidence unearthed by respected Irish historian Christine Kinealy ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...

Professor O’Neill was the co-founder of the Irish Studies Program at Boston College. His research concentrates on the interaction of traditional agricultural societies and a growing world economy, ...