The Taoiseach has described the Great Famine as the most traumatic event in Ireland's recorded history. Micheál Martin said nowhere suffered greater mortality than Connacht with the loss of nearly ...

Irish minister Patrick O'Donovan said that 'modern dictators' could follow the handbook of the British government to learn ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

The Shankill Area Social History Group dedicated a stone memorial to the victims of the Great Famine, just inside the gates of the Shankill Road Graveyard. On Monday, a Great Hunger memorial was ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

In this vivid but muddled comparative history, novelist and journalist Keneally (Schindler's List) studies three great famines and finds weather, insects, and disease less culpable than misguided, ...