Getty Images More than one million people died in the Great Famine of 1845-52 ... However, it was seen by the Irish press as an "implicit apology" and was warmly welcomed. The British Ambassador ...

Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history, second only to the Black Death pandemic in death toll estimates - the Great Famine. Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine ...

Laura Trevelyan accepts that her great, great, great-grandfather was among those who "failed their people" while governing Ireland during the famine. The Irish folk song The Fields Of Athenry ...