Researchers at North Carolina State University have pinpointed the Andes Mountains as the birthplace of the infamous Irish ...

It will include military honors before culminating ... Potato blight that sparked Great Famine appeared in US two years before Plymouth Irish community proposes sign commemorating Irish immigrants ...

Scientists have discovered new evidence that the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine may have originated thousands of miles away. A study that examined the DNA of Phytophthora (P.) ...

The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...

Cultural memories of the cool British response to the “potato famine” that left an estimated 1 million Irish people dead ... protected by a military escort of overwhelming strength ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while ...