A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish history. The Great Famine (1845 to 1852) saw the ...

The graves of thousands of people in a famine-era Belfast burial ground are finally set to be officially marked.

From the Famine to Fair City, it's clear that the relationship between the Irish and the Choctaw Nations is being actively ...

The museum tells the story of the Great Famine through the personal tragedies of the tenants on the Strokestown Estate and of ...

North Carolina Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would impose work requirements on people enrolled in the ...

Ireland's rich history is often commemorated and celebrated through events, art, and education, with some residual tensions still present to this day. From the Easter Rising to the Great Famine, there ...

So begins, Rot, Padraic X Scanlan’s disturbing and insightful account of the Irish famine. The “Great Hunger” reverberates deeply in the Irish cultural psyche, akin to the Great War for Britain.

Find out what Ireland is known for, including something surprising - cozy pubs, beautiful landscapes and the welcoming spirit ...

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.

IrishCentral Contributor Loretto Leary reflects on the inaugural Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield’s Founders’ Gala.