The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...

"I want to talk about Ireland. Specifically, I want to talk about the famine..." Credit: Mashable Composite; Paul Bergen / Redferns / Getty / TikTok Sinéad O'Connor's life was marred with ...

Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history, second only to the Black Death pandemic in death toll estimates - the Great Famine. Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while ...

The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...