By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The Great Famine, which took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, is something many of us learned about to some degree in school. It was a tale ...

The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...

Famine ravaged large parts of Europe in the mid-1840s and millions died or were displaced over a number of years. Ireland suffered ... which saw blight devastate potato crops.

In the 1840s, he was the senior British civil servant in charge of Irish famine relief. More than a million people died and another two million emigrated during the famine, the result of potato ...

Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine, which was caused by a potato blight, lasted between 1845 and 1849, decimating Ireland's population and resulting in emigration on an ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland ... Year after year, the potato crop failed in Ireland. Unable to pay the rent, families were ...

Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840s. Ford was born in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. His formal education was limited ...

four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror ...