The New Yorker5d
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
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 Pacific Northwest Inlander2d
It’s an epic story never to forget: The downtrodden, exploited Irish were left to die, yet some found a way to survive
In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...
Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan - Interesting and new takes, and much to debate
Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...
‘Rot’ Review: The Blight of Empire
By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...
IrishCentral2d
The heroic bishop who gave his life while tending to Irish Famine victims in Canada
The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...
Independent.ie9d
‘The moral crimes that led to it were committed over centuries’: exposing the Famine’s imperial roots
Charles Trevelyan was not a man who suffered overly from self-doubt. At the height of the Great Irish Famine in 1847, however ...
Does Kneecap’s Bafta win signal changing UK attitudes to British colonialism in Ireland?
The enthusiastically received Irish-language film shows how film can cut through the noise of history, politics and culture ...
A guide to Boston’s Irish Heritage Trail
A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.
Wall Street Journal3d
‘Rot’ Review: The Blight of Empire
Scanlan shows in “Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine,” is much more complex ... and by the middle of the century made up almost half the British army. Their celebrated military ...