People in Ireland inspired by an act of generosity committed more than 170 years ago are paying it forward. In 1847, the Choctaw people collected $170 to send to people in Ireland who were starving ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

Historical analyses of the Great Irish Famine emphasize both selection and scarring effects, with downstream implications for population health across generations. DOHaD frameworks and human famine ...

Areas hardest hit by the Great Irish Famine did not experience an expected stunting in height of the population, new academic research has found. The research from Queen’s Business School in Belfast ...

The new Dunbrody Famine Ship experience, in New Ross, County Wexford, tells the story of Irish emigration and the impact of the Great Famine. The new educational tourist attraction is expected to ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

A unique concept is rooted in the Irish psyche—respectability. Respectability can mean many things, but it meant only one thing among Irish Famine immigrants: financial security. Whether working as a ...

Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured ...

Labour TD Conor Sheehan recently made the claim in the Dáil.

In this eye-opening account, Anbinder (City of Dreams), a historian at George Washington University, draws on records housed in the New York Public Library’s archives of the former Emigrant Savings ...