A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

When I was in high school, we learned an Irish lament thought to have been written during the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s ... bite of Garlic Butter Irish Potato Chips at Trader Joe's.

So begins, Rot, Padraic X Scanlan’s disturbing and insightful account of the Irish famine. The “Great ... on the subsistence crop of the miracle potato was a utilitarian innovation.

Leonora Kearney was born in 1849 in Cork. Her parents, John and Honor Kearney, fled the Irish potato famine and settled in Pierrepont in northern New York where her father worked a farm.

For the past 40 years, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network ... Last September, former Irish president and chair of the Elders Mary Robinson told an emergency briefing held by Dóchas that ...

Ristaino’s revelation that 1b did not cause the Irish potato famine is controversial—some researchers question her methodology—but her further suggestion that P. infestans could have ...

A pair of stone mushrooms, or staddle stones Cast iron intertwined vine garden bench Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish ... When the potato crop failed ...

I am talking about those who came before us, who lifted us up from fleeing the Famine to the No Irish Need Apply signs to the prominent positions we hold now. The last "No Irish Need Apply" sign ...

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has announced that it took control of famine-hit Zamzam camp in the western Darfur region, after two days of heavy shelling and gunfire there and ...

A ­digitally sculpted famine monument is to be unveiled to commemorate ... British peer Earl Grey in the mid-19th century. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with ...