When a devastating blight struck the potato crops, it unleashed a famine of unimaginable proportions, leaving a profound ...

During Ireland's Great Famine, one million people died from starvation and another one million left in search of a better life. Here we explain what the Irish Famine's Black '47 was. The Great Famine, ...

From Ireland's Great Hunger to the brave Irish heroes of the US Civil War, Niall O'Dowd examines how Irish Famine emigrants changed the landscape of American history. Niall O'Dowd, Founder of ...

The Great Hunger: 1M dead, 2M fled, & Fenians invading Canada for Ireland is where it led. The Great Hunger, or the potato famine, devastated Ireland, causing 1 million deaths and driving two million ...

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is coming to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- On Staten Island, a simple famine marker in front of the St. George courthouse marks where the immigrants, mostly Irish, were buried with haste. The perfectly formed hill in ...

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 — and inaccessible to the public — for nearly 150 years. One detail ...

One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that transcends generations Austin West visits Kindred Spirits, a monument to the Choctaw in County Cork. The 20-foot-high steel feathers ...