The fourth episode in The Great Famine Irish history podcast series examines whether the Irish people saw disaster coming? What was Ireland like in 1845? The year 1845 is famous for one thing in ...

Famine conditions prevailed in parts of Ireland right up to 1852 with emigration becoming a staple of Irish life. Between 1845 and 1855 over 900,000 Irish people arrived in New York alone.

Facts about The Great Famine emigration out of Ireland Dr. Ciarán Ó Murchadha discusses Irish emigration triggered by desperation in his book "The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-1852." ...

The Irish catastrophe. The Great Famine in Ireland began as a natural catastrophe of extraordinary magnitude, but its effects were severely worsened by the actions and inactions of the Whig ...

The Great Famine was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland that generally lasted from 1845 to 1855. The famine was started by a natural disease, an epidemic of vegetation fungus, but ...

Books & the Arts / A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. John Banville The premise of Rot, Padraic S ...

For many descendants of Irish emigrants, the Great Famine is the anchor for a common ... An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel ...

The failure of the potato crop in Ireland beginning in 1845 set in motion a chain of events that significantly altered the history of Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The ...

Skibbereen, and west Cork in general, was one of the worst affected parts of Ireland during the Great Famine between 1845 and 1851 and it produced some crucial figures in the Irish independence ...