His wife’s great-grandfather, Hugh Larkin, a peasant and cottier from Galway, transported in 1833 to Van Diemen ... Page after page about diseases of the famine, technical details of journeys and ...

Why We’re Excited: The Famine Orphans spotlights the story of the women impacted by the Earl Grey scheme, a program that transported Irish orphan girls impacted by the Great Famine to Australia ...

By Cian O'Connell The 23rd series of TG4's Laochra Gael continues on Thursday evening when Kerry's Marc Ó Sé reflects on his career. From a famous An Ghaeltacht sporting family, Ó Sé enjoyed a hugely ...

Wexford’s difficultly is an opportunity Cork simply must take. They must win this game. They must get off on the right foot, they have to seriously challenge for this title, they have to (in our view) ...

Inside Track with John McIntyre THE new rules are having a transformative effect on Gaelic football – look at the huge scoring in most of the weekend National League games – and Galway are clearly one ...

There have been some great days, some not so great days. The two Ulster wins against Donegal in 2013 and 2015 were brilliant for different reasons, one the end of a famine, the other ... Travelling ...

Not since the famine years of the seventies have expectations been so ... It should lead to a certain reassessment of the underage model. Galway, for instance, have developed the knack of winning ...

Adding great weight to their achievements ... school last tasted All-Ireland glory. The famine was ended when they lifted the Senior ‘B’ Cup following victory over Coláiste Muire Máthair of Galway at ...

Meath, without question, has had its share of such people who have helped shape the direction the GAA has taken, individuals who have been part of a team effort designed to keep the great organisation ...

Groundbreaking new research identifies the Andes as the origin of the Irish potato famine pathogen, reshaping efforts to ...

The source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine has finally been identified. Researchers from North Carolina State […] The post The Source Of The Deadly Irish Potato Famine Has Ties To ...

In the span of just two months, the Sudanese mother watched helplessly as severe malnutrition killed her 10-year-old daughter, Rania, and her eight-month-old son, Montasir, in the famine-stricken ...