Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

We are already more than halfway through Irish American heritage month, so if you are still searching for some luck 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 ...

In 1847, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York from famine-ravaged Ireland ... Read our review here [ The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says ...

The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...