Between 1845-1850, the Great Potato Famine created a mass exodus from Ireland, forcing two million citizens to board ships in search of better lives in the U.S. Jeanie Johnston was perhaps the ...

Irish dish for St. Patrick's Day, you won't find native Irishman dining on corned beef and cabbage on the holiday.

We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...

Despite his early successes, UK-based entrepreneur Steven Bartlett, 32, has suffered multiple recent career blows.

For 14-year-old Joseph travelling with his father to Ireland and seeing the appalling effects of the Great Famine, where at least one million poor people starved to death, was to have a real impact on ...

In 1958, Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine. Sparrows were killed to protect grain, igniting a locust ...

When we think of famine, we quickly think of a natural disaster, while there are often political causes as well. A famine ...

“The people are actually starving and living in ruins,” the Evening Star of Washington reported on Nov. 29, 1914, in a story ...

The Trump administration has deactivated the Famine Early Warning System Network after the State Department issued a “stop-work” order on all U.S. foreign assistance, with exceptions for some ...

There are times when this rural west Ireland fable makes “The Banshees ... living with his miserable old cuss of a father, Ray (the great Colm Meaney), who never moves from his kitchen chair ...