Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pupils from St Eithne's in Derry were among the first to see the new exhibition [BBC] A famine in which millions died or emigrated ...

The potato is often seen as a humble food, a versatile crop that graces dinner tables worldwide. Yet, for 19th-century Ireland, this simple tuber was more than a dietary staple – it was a lifeline.

Editor's Note: The below letter was shared with IrishCentral by signatory Dr John Cunningham of University of Galway today, Friday, March 15. The Irish Famine of c. 1846-50 resonates through Irish and ...

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 ...

The New York State Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH, the oldest and largest Irish Catholic organization in the US) has passed a resolution highlighting what it says are "significant failures in the ...

Author upends more than 150 years of assumptions about the approximately 1.3 million immigrants from Ireland who came to the United States during and just after the Great Famine of the 1840s. Tourists ...

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 ...

In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the Promised Land. Instead, when she went to North America via Liverpool, she ...

In the spring of 1847, during the height of the Great Famine, 1,490 Irish men, women and children were evicted by the British from their homes and forced to travel 103 miles on foot along the Royal ...