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 ...

Irish ate more pork than beef, but English demands and low prices in the U.S. played a role in creating the annual holiday ...

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 ...