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 ...

Failure of the potato crop evoked horrific memories for some who had lived through the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s ...

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, ...

Emigration from Ireland during the Great Famine represents one of the greatest population displacements of its time, an exodus on a stunning scale that has no other nineteenth century parallel ...

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 ...

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 ...