A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish history. The Great Famine (1845 to 1852) saw the death of around a million people and the forced emigration of a similar ...

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 ...

Belfast City Council is planning to recognise the burial ground thousands of people who died during the Irish famine in ...

Great Famine and Irish independence struggle linked by geography and historyOpens in new window ] It had a higher nutritional yield per acre than cereals and would grow where they could not.

While St. Patrick's Day is mostly a day of celebration – it also gives us an excuse to learn more about Irish history. In his new book, "Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine," Historian ...

So begins, Rot, Padraic X Scanlan’s disturbing and insightful account of the Irish famine. The “Great Hunger” reverberates deeply in the Irish cultural psyche, akin to the Great War for Britain.

Collins, the city’s mayor from 1960-1968, on the side of the building. The Boston Irish Famine Memorial, at the corner of Washington and School streets, was erected to commemorate the 150th ...