After Scotland, the counties with the next highest drug death rates are Ireland, Estonia, Norway, Finland ... who came over with the potato famine and settled in the West of Scotland, and Dundee, and ...

While St. Patrick's Day is mostly a day of celebration – it also gives us an excuse to learn more about Irish history. In his new book, "Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine," Historian ...

The Trump administration's dismantling of USAID threatens the international system for forecasting and tracking extreme hunger. That could lead to deadlier famines.

The historic photo was displayed as part of The Irish Potato Famine exhibit hosted at Dublin's Stephen's Green Shopping Center, Dublin. The exhibition was curated by historian Gerard McCarthy ...

Aid workers say the restrictions have had the biggest impact in the famine-stricken areas around the city of al-Fashir, the army's besieged final holdout in Darfur, as well as in nearby Tawila ...

‘Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many people, subjects of what was certainly the most powerful country on ...

There are a good 10 famine areas where that has been declared, where people have no food, where people are dying of hunger. Out of the 10, we only have access to four. So six we, at this point in ...

it is important to remember that 2022 also marks the 177th anniversary of the start of the Irish Potato Famine (1845 to 1852). For many, the term "taking the soup" is synonymous with the Famine story.

Fatehiyya Mohamed Adam is a Sudanese refugee who first fled war in 2023 and then lost everything after an accidental fire ripped through this refugee camp along the Chad-Sudan border. HIAS, a ...