In December 1843, work on the workhouse in Athy was completed. The first inmates were admitted to the workhouse on 9 January ...

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

The Centre for Economics, Policy and History has collaborated on a new video series for students showing how data can help us understand the long-term impacts of political conflict.

The central contention in 'Rot' is that Westminster’s response to the starvation was defined by its overarching commitment to the principles of the free market ...

From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans. Famine killed at least a million people.

📜 Irish Potato Famine: The American Wake -Not all of the 214,000 Irish immigrants in 1847 made it safely to their new homes--and of those who did, many faced classism and xenophobia and even ...

📜 Irish Potato Famine: The Young and the Old - Irish leaders entered the picture when the 1847 Poor Laws backfired, leading landowners to mass-evict their starving tenants. Daniel O'Connell ...

In 1847, the Choctaw people collected $170 to send to people in Ireland who were starving during the potato famine.

In 1992, 22 Irish men and women walked the Trail of Tears to raise money for famine relief efforts in Somalia, according to Bunbury. They raised $170,000 — $1,000 for each dollar the Choctaw ...

Survivors were forced to emigrate. In the summer of 1847, Toronto gave refuge to 38,000 Irish famine victims — at a time when Toronto's population was only 20,000.

Connecticut Irish In the mid-1800s, there were more foreign-born people from Ireland than any other ethnic group 1850: 27,000 1860: 55,000 Today: 606,000, or 17.3 percent of Connecticut's ...

Ireland's Great Hunger, known to most as the Irish Potato Famine of 1845, is on this list, too, because it immediately sent more than 1 million Irish to American shores.