Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...
The world’s worst humanitarian crisis today is probably the web of famine, civil war, mass rape and other atrocities in Sudan ...
The head of the U.N. children’s program, UNICEF, said Thursday that 16 million children in Sudan are suffering horribly from ...
Because the census relied on the information given by survivors, and thus did not count ... kind of language used to cloak the horrors of the famine: an accusatory rage against the British ...
that remember both the horror of the Famine and the resilience of survivors. The panicked rush to escape from Ireland during the blight was followed by waves of emigration. The Irish population ...