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.

Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish history. The Great Famine (1845 to 1852) saw the ...

One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that ... who oversaw the British response to the Irish famine. A pamphlet about famine relief rests on the floor.

The much-debated “Irish Question”, Scanlan implies, was actually a British Question ... argues, the famine was “as modern as the machinery on display” at the Great Exhibition in Crystal ...

The above newspaper illustration is one of the most iconic images from Ireland’s Great Hunger. Used frequently to accompany books, articles, and exhibitions about An Gorta Mór, the mother and ...

On the social media platform, it's become the soundtrack for Irish people sharing experiences reckoning with British ... Irish potato famine — known more accurately as the Great Famine in ...

The footage features Queen Victoria - sometimes known as the ‘Famine Queen’ as she reigned throughout Ireland's Great Hunger- during ... the complex history of British-Irish relations.

Historian Dr Robyn Atcheson said the official marking of the graves is "long overdue" The unmarked graves of thousands of people who died during the Irish famine ... "The 'great and the good ...

loss of life during the great famine was particularly significant. “Irish was discouraged by the British colonial powers and at certain stages made illegal certainly in law. But it was still spoken.