The National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park in Co. Roscommon is set to host the 2025 Famine Summer School from May 29 to June 1, 2025. This annual international conference brings together scholars, ...

Pat Uniacke is a champion hurler, not a golfer, but on Sunday he drove his construction truck up from San Bruno just to stand at an overlook of the 17th tee at San Francisco’s Lincoln Park Golf Course ...

There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that destroyed ...

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 ...

Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

The Shankill Area Social History Group dedicated a stone memorial to the victims of the Great Famine, just inside the gates of the Shankill Road Graveyard. On Monday, a Great Hunger memorial was ...