It sounds like a surreal scene from Father Ted or a bad taste joke from David McSavage's RTÉ sketch show The Savage Eye.

Between 1845-1850, the Great Potato Famine created a mass exodus from Ireland, forcing two million citizens to board ships in search of better lives in the U.S. Jeanie Johnston was perhaps the ...

The American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) commemorates the 180th anniversary of Ireland's Great Hunger with a poignant ...

St Anthony's Church on Scotland Road has stood for nearly 200 years - and it has a little-known secret hiding beneath it ...

Read more: Exciting Irish destination listed among top ten ... boat to learn what life was like on board one of the famine ships heading to North America. The city of Derry has found international ...

The Great Famine, which took place in Ireland between 1845 and ... infestans originated from an American ship traveling to Ireland for trade. The population of Ireland in 1845 was estimated to be just ...

2.The Irish potato famine was, in part ... "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." ...

He went on to build two more bakeries, as well as buy two ships which allowed him to import ... However during the Great Famine (1845 - 49) the potato crop repeatedly failed due to blight.

The tragedy a young mother faced on the Skellig in the late nineteenth century must have been as monumental as the Atlantic ...

Prostitution, assault and murder. A confronting chapter in Australia’s story has led to a modern mystery with its roots in ...