Areas hardest hit by the Great Irish Famine did not experience an expected stunting in height of the population, new academic research has found. The research from Queen’s Business School in Belfast ...

Editor's Note: The below letter was shared with IrishCentral by signatory Dr John Cunningham of University of Galway today, Friday, March 15. The Irish Famine of c. 1846-50 resonates through Irish and ...

The story of Eily, Michael and Peggy fending for themselves in the Irish famine of the mid 19th century will be brought to life in an interactive display.

This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick on Saturday, May 17, 2025. The annual public ceremony, which will be broadcast on RTÉ News Now channel, will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tyler Anbinder didn’t know what he’d find when he started digging into a vast trove of records that had been locked inside a bank ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the Promised Land. Instead, when she went to North America via Liverpool, she ...

The exhibit has been created in collaboration with Quinnipiac University and Ireland's Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield. It ...