The source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine has finally been identified. Researchers from North Carolina State […] The post The Source Of The Deadly Irish Potato Famine Has Ties To ...

Padraig Kirwan and LeAnne Howe on the generosity of the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations Blighted Nation tells the story of the Great Irish Famine from the arrival of the blight to the long ...

A Jewish group in Ukraine is objecting to a criminal case brought over the “Great Famine” committed in the 1930s. KIEV, Ukraine (JTA) — A Jewish group in Ukraine is objecting to a criminal ...

A memorial for people who died or emigrated abroad during the Great Irish Famine will take place in Longford on May 19. This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place in Edgeworthstown ...

Resentment of Moscow in Ukraine has deep historical roots. In the Great Famine of the 1930s, as many as four million Ukrainians died during the forced collectivisation of farms by Soviet dictator ...

Throughout its history, Ethiopia has experienced famine — according to one historian, at least one every decade on average between the 15th and 19th centuries. The Great Ethiopian Famine alone ...

The Irish fleeing the Great Hunger in 1847 would have traveled ... The "Black Rock" one of the oldest Famine memorials was erected by the Irish construction workers who discovered the remains ...

If his name is a strange omission from her index, Taylor shares with Corkery a fierce effort to recover a world lost with the Great Famine.

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty on the enormous humanitarian contribution of Paul Strzelecki during the Great Famine ...