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 ...

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 ...

Known for his depictions of life in Ireland throughout the early 1800s and later through the years of The Great Famine, Carleton's most famous work is “Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry ...