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 ...

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 ...

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 ...