By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many ...

Although the potato isn’t really Irish, it has become Irish by association. So, this St. Patrick’s Day, make sure you include ...

I did cook the requisite corned beef, cabbage and potatoes, yesterday, the Holy Day, March 17. I also offered a meatless ...

The South Shore Irish Heritage Trail winds through nine towns, from Weymouth to Plymouth, along the South Shore of ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost ...