From notes to use Kerrygold butter to sick descriptions of Irish women, over 2,000 references to Ireland or Irish people were ...

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) – While he grew up in New York, John Lahey recalls, the Irish famine was almost a taboo topic. But these days, the Quinnipiac University president and former grand marshal of the ...

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

Dr Dan Donovan saved thousands of lives during Ireland's Great Hunger ...

This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick on Saturday, May 17, 2025. The annual public ceremony, which will be broadcast on RTÉ News Now channel, will ...

In County Leitrim, an area of Ireland hit hard by the Troubles and the Great Famine, townspeople are fighting what they say ...

From Ireland's Great Hunger to the brave Irish heroes of the US Civil War, Niall O'Dowd examines how Irish Famine emigrants changed the landscape of American history. Niall O'Dowd, Founder of ...

A 5K, football tournament, concert, gala and parade will celebrate the culture of the Irish immigrants who helped make up the melting pot of New Orleans during commemorative events this week. And on ...

The decade became known as the Hungry Forties, not just in Ireland but all over Europe. Wouter Ronsijn and Eric Vanhaute explain how starvation threatened European stability - and how different ...

DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - More than 300 lots of letters and reports dating from Ireland's Great Famine years will go under the hammer this week in the first auction of its kind, which has aroused much ...