A Listowel pastoral event commemorating the troubled lives of those who were buried at the Teampall Bán famine graveyard took ...

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Failure of the potato crop evoked horrific memories for some who had lived through the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s ...

One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that transcends generations Austin West visits Kindred Spirits, a monument to the Choctaw in County Cork. The 20-foot-high steel ...

We set out to understand how a disaster as terrible as the Great Irish Famine (1845–1852), one of the worst famines in history, can affect the long‑term health of the people who survived it.

By 1845, Ireland exported roughly 250,000 head of cattle, 90 million eggs and enough grain to feed two million people to Britain each year. But the Irish poor rarely ate anything but potatoes.

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. SNL cold open sees hapless Hegseth, Vance and Rubio joining high-schoolers’ group chat ...

Irish immigrants sailing to the U.S. during the Great Famine in 1850. Illustration for publication in the London News on 6th July 1850. Illustrated London News—Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

Reading that historical account of philanthropy in the 1800s led Shrout on a quest that spanned 15 years as she researched the international aid that came to the Irish people during the Great Famine, ...

In Ireland, the 1845 farming year began uneventfully. Peasants tended their fields and watched their crops flourish. As the weeks passed, however, it became clear that something was wrong.