By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The Great Famine, which took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, is something many of us learned about to some degree in school. It was a tale ...

Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine, which was caused by a potato blight, lasted between 1845 and 1849, decimating Ireland's population and resulting in emigration on an ...

However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest ... Some people emigrated to Great Britain and Australia, but most emigrated to America. Image caption, Many Irish people emigrated and started ...

Padraig Kirwan and LeAnne Howe on the generosity of the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations Blighted Nation tells the story of the Great Irish Famine from the arrival of the blight to the long ...

You probably know what shepherd's pie is, but how about boxty or champ? Follow along to discover traditional Irish food, one ...

Dublin statues commemorating the Great Famine in which ... more than a million Irish people and forced about a million more to emigrate after blight devastated the potato crop.

More than a million people died and another two million emigrated during the famine, the result of potato blight and exports of food to Great Britain, which ruled the entire island of Ireland at ...

The bleak discoveries of the Irish Famine dead give an insight into the ... The Irish fleeing the Great Hunger in 1847 would have traveled by coffin ship having lived in dire conditions at home.