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 ...

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

A chillingly intact Irish famine workhouse that still stands in Laois, has been awarded €200,000 to preserve it into the ...

Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Charles Trevelyan was not a man who suffered overly from self-doubt. At the height of the Great Irish Famine in 1847, however, the pious civil servant ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Great Famine, also known as The Great Hunger, is a significant chapter in Irish history and a tragedy that had enduring effects on the nation. There are numerous ways to learn about this ...

ipomoeae, native to Mexico. They also included historic samples of P. infestans collected during the Irish Potato Famine. The results were clear. The Mexican species, P. mirabilis and P.