Picture: David Creedon A memorial has been unveiled in West Cork to remember a poignant forgotten chapter of the Irish Famine story — 14 orphan girls shipped from famine-ravaged Ireland to ...

The bones recovered from Canada's Cap-des-Rosiers beach indicated a diet low in protein and severe malnutrition, confirming they were very likely victims of the Great Famine of Ireland.

Why not us?’: Louth’s Sam Mulroy says belief was at heart of county’s march from lowest ebb to Leinster titleOpens in new window ] Every team that ends a famine faces that same dilemma.

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 Author and historian Padraic X ...

By 25 June last year, the global hunger monitor (IPC) stated that Gaza remained at high risk of famine. Ahead of his inauguration, the then US president-elect Donald Trump applied pressure for a ...

Labour MP Adam Jogee challenged the remark in a point of order in the Commons on Thursday which he said appeared to reference the Irish potato famine. But in a statement to BBC News NI ...

Between famine-era mass starvation deaths and forced emigration, Ireland’s population fell from 8.5 million in 1845 to 6.6 million by 1851. The Irish famines (from 1845 to 1852) got seared onto ...

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A senior Conservative MP appeared to make “offensive and insensitive” comments about the Irish potato famine, the Commons has heard. Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith, responding to a ...

“These words appear to be referencing the tragedy of the Irish potato famine which, if true, is of course offensive and insensitive and, of course, would have taken place at the time in the ...

A senior Conservative MP appeared to make “offensive and insensitive” comments about the Irish potato famine, the Commons has heard. Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith, responding to a question ...