The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

Great Famine and Irish independence struggle linked by geography and historyOpens in new window ] It had a higher nutritional yield per acre than cereals and would grow where they could not.

and Irish dance and music lessons. Gaelic Park is also home to the Chicago Famine Memorial, paying tribute to the Irish lives ...

Those plans represent the San Francisco Irish Great Famine Memorial Plaza, and sometime before St. Patrick’s Day, Uniacke will file them with the building department — to begin, at last ...