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Sting and other British and Irish musical acts, which raised money and public awareness for the famine in Ethiopia that was happening at that time. Belafonte enlisted America's top recording ...

It houses a collection of U2 memorabilia for fans of Dublin's most ... to working-class Dubliners in the aftermath of the Great Irish Famine in 1845. Henrietta Street was derelict for many years ...

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 ...

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.

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In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. Kennedy slashing 10,000 jobs in health department overhaul Big Changes Are Coming To KFC In ...

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 ...

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 ...