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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ireland's rich history is often commemorated and celebrated through events, art, and education, with some residual tensions ...

More than 100 students from Sancta Maria College Louisburg walk through the Doolough Valley on same route as in 1849 during ...

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 ...