Irish government has confirmed that the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna will host the National Famine Commemoration 2026 ...

Canada and the Great Irish Famine is a fascinating collection of essays on disparate aspects of a crisis that today’s ...

In the decade following the 1845 appearance of the potato blight in Ireland, over 900,000 Irish emigrants entered New York, which was the biggest port in America. Later on, a census taken in 1855 ...

Our pick for tonight is Black ’47. This western follows Irish soldier Feeney (James Frecheville) who in 1847 returns home ...

When Anelise Hanson Shrout was in graduate school at New York University, she read an account about how the Choctaw Nation donated to Ireland during the Great Famine, not long after the U.S. federal ...

Author upends more than 150 years of assumptions about the approximately 1.3 million immigrants from Ireland who came to the United States during and just after the Great Famine of the 1840s. Tourists ...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by streaming the Irish Film Festival, Boston (March 17-21), which features among its many fine documentaries Ruan Magan’s “The Hunger” (available from March 18 at 3 p.m.).

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky An investigation is underway into the shuttered Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at ...

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

It would be wrong to say that Irish people do not commemorate the Great Famine. Since Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom a century ago, generations of schoolchildren have learned that ...

Their situation was dire. In a small island nation of little importance to the rest of the world, a million people starved to death. Entire villages were abandoned. Families disappeared. But the ...