Areas hardest hit by the Great Irish Famine did not experience an expected stunting in height of the population, new academic research has found. The research from Queen’s Business School in Belfast ...

Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

The new Dunbrody Famine Ship experience, in New Ross, County Wexford, tells the story of Irish emigration and the impact of the Great Famine. The new educational tourist attraction is expected to ...

Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured ...

Author upends more than 150 years of assumptions about the approximately 1.3 million immigrants from Ireland who came to the United States during and just after the Great Famine of the 1840s. Tourists ...