During the Great Famine, over a million Irish people died and millions more fled while the British Empire stood by with limited aid and rigid policy. This video investigates why the English government ...

Genealogical riches from every county of Ireland feature among new historical records which are now available online.

The 1945 famine has been fading into obscurity, despite its crucial role in the country’s independence fight. Remembering Vietnam’s Great Famine – The Diplomat All Sections Search ...

Reading that historical account of philanthropy in the 1800s led Shrout on a quest that spanned 15 years as she researched the international aid that came to the Irish people during the Great Famine, ...

From sexual behaviour to agriculture to religion to the diaspora, the Great Famine had effects on Irish society that are still being felt today. Kevin Whelan explains.

In “Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York,” Anbinder uses the bank records to dispel a myth that’s prevailed for generations about the 1.3 million Irish ...

One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that transcends generations Austin West visits Kindred Spirits, a monument to the Choctaw in County Cork. The 20-foot-high steel ...

But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past. It was a complex and modern political, ecological and economic disaster, shaped by Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom, and in the ...