Love Irish history? Share your favorite stories with other history buffs in the IrishCentral History Facebook group. With the onset of the Great Famine, his health crumbled. Despite this ...

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 ...

Jane’s fiercely unforgiving tone was adopted by militant Irish nationalists for whom the famine stood as the ultimate proof of English perfidy. But in her poem, too, the victims appear as an ...

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.