Pat Uniacke is a champion hurler, not a golfer, but on Sunday he drove his construction truck up from San Bruno just to stand at an overlook of the 17th tee at San Francisco’s Lincoln Park golf course ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many ...

In a preface to the monumental “Atlas of the Great Irish Famine,” published in 2012, the former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, observed that “for many years the event was cloaked in ...

Ireland's rich history is often commemorated and celebrated through events, art, and education, with some residual tensions ...

But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past. It was a complex and modern political, ecological and economic disaster, shaped by Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom, and in the ...

Donations to Irish people from indigenous communities in Canada during the Great Famine - valued at around €12,000 today - ...

An exhibition about a forgotten Polish hero from the Great Irish Famine, has launched in Tipperary today. Carrick-on-Suir ...

Founder of Irish Land League Michael Davitt was born on this day in 1846 at the height of the Great Irish Famine in Mayo ...