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 ...

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.

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 situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while ...

At the height of the Great Irish Famine in 1847, however, the pious civil servant charged with organising Britain’s response (later to become immortalised in The Fields of Athenry) apparently ...

Dozens gathered at Penn's Landing on Monday on St. Patrick's Day to honor Irish immigrants who escaped to America following Ireland's famine in the 1800s.