British policy makers could only imagine relief based on the principles of the free market. But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past. It was a complex and modern political ...

Pataki announced that “history teaches us the Great Irish Hunger was not the ... in the laws of the market to shape the British response to the famine. In its first full year, 1846, Robert ...

Lincoln was one of 15,000 people worldwide to donate money to Ireland during the Great Irish Famine. This is according ... and from controversial British monarch Queen Victoria.

When Donald Trump invoked the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members this weekend, I had only one association with the law: when the Federalists originally passed it ...

As the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, Los Patricios, a group of immigrants, took up arms for Mexico to defend their ...

There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that ... and brutality of successive British governments. But reality, as Padraic X.

In an area of Ireland hit hard by the Troubles, townspeople are fighting what they say is a new wave of colonialism: tree plantations.

From RTÉ Radio 1's The History Show, writer Mary Russell tells the story of how the very first Ordnance Survey maps of ...

The British government spent millions of ... in their own way, right. The Great Famine really did reshape Ireland, driving ...

More than a century and a half after the “Great Famine,” we live with ... about this inequality than were British landlords interested in feeding Irish peasants. Take Pearson, the global ...

Mary Burke was born and reared in rural County Fermanagh in the townland of Gortaree, which means ‘Field of the King’ in Irish. The youngest ...