As emotive as the subject may be, Rot moves beyond sentiment, ideology and the false comforts of denial and denunciation.
Ireland's rich history is often commemorated and celebrated through events, art, and education, with some residual tensions ...
Famine killed at least a million people. Some half again as many fled Ireland – including all eight of my great-great-grandparents on my father’s side, who emigrated to Quebec. In the depths ...
“Make American Vacations Great Again” – a phrase that does not yet exist but which offers an uncomfortable vista for Irish ...
In a preface to the monumental “Atlas of the Great Irish Famine,” published in 2012, the former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, observed that “for many years the event was cloaked in ...
An Taibhse comes from on-the-rise writer-director John Farrelly and is set during the tail end of the Great Famine.
A chillingly intact Irish famine workhouse that still stands in Laois, has been awarded €200,000 to preserve it into the ...
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 ...
Get whisked away to “The Most Irish Town in America!” Thanks to immigrants from the Emerald Isle who settled here during the Great Famine, the town stays true to its roots with pubs, a heritage trail ...