Early summer’s rainy, humid weather created exactly the sort of conditions suitable for the spread of potato blight ...

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

The National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has approved field trials for testing Genetically Modified (GM) vaccines aimed ...

Since the city's establishment in the 1820s, Indianapolis has been a magnet for immigrants seeking opportunity and refuge.

The vessels that carried the disease-ridden and malnourished Irish refugees were known as “coffin ships.” That’s the picture of the Great Famine we have today.

In Uganda, potato blight can destroy up to 100% of a farmer's crop, endangering livelihoods and local food security. Just as in the Irish famine, dependence on a single crop is risky.

The Zeeks, Everments and others were beggared refugees from hunger in Germany’s Palatinate in the early 1700s with few skills ...

As one traditional (if woefully out-dated) rhyme explains: Boxty on the griddle, Boxty in the pan, If you can't make boxty, You'll never get your man. Traditional Irish boxty recipe Yield: about 4 ...

There are famine memorials dedicated to the Irish Great Hunger all over the world but the location and history of the famine memorial in Dublin, Ireland, is perhaps one of the most interesting and ...

A biotech variety of Irish potato, resistant to late blight--a major threat to the staple crop--was trialed in Musanze. Nduwumuremyi said that the performance of such crops is promising.

President [WT] Cosgrave’s sharp observations on the subject of the Press may have been provoked by irritating and unwise ...

And for good reason. It was a Famine food, harvested and hauled from rock pools by starving peasants to boil or dry, then eat.