The Great Hunger: 1M dead, 2M fled, & Fenians invading Canada for Ireland is where it led. The Great Hunger, or the potato famine, devastated Ireland, causing 1 million deaths and driving two million ...

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.

The Irish potato famine of 1845–52 resulted in more than a million deaths. Another million people were displaced, and Ireland’s population was reduced by about 25%. The cause of widespread potato rot ...

During Ireland's Great Famine, one million people died from starvation and another one million left in search of a better life. Here we explain what the Irish Famine's Black '47 was. The Great Famine, ...

Tyler Anbinder didn’t know what he’d find when he started digging into a vast trove of records that had been locked inside a bank — and inaccessible to the public — for nearly 150 years. One detail ...

Is there a simple answer to this question? I was a little stunned when this question came in. I hope teachers still touch on the Irish Potato Famine in lessons on immigration in grade and high school.

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is coming to ...

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 ...