Meghan Fiero Reilly from Connecticut in the USA keeps a coffee mug on her work desk with the replica famine ship Jennie ...

Since the city's establishment in the 1820s, Indianapolis has been a magnet for immigrants seeking opportunity and refuge.

Its effect on the potato gives “ Rot,” a vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan, its title.

The pathogen struck a major blow to the nation's potato crop, leaving widespread poverty and disease in its wake. The Great Famine that ensued, lasting from 1845 to 1852, marked a major crisis in ...

A genetic investigation has finally tracked down the source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine, closing a case that has been up in the air for years. Researchers nailed down the Andes ...

📜 Irish Potato Famine: The American Wake -Not all of the 214,000 Irish immigrants in 1847 made it safely to their new homes--and of those who did, many faced classism and xenophobia and even ...

Increasingly hailed as "Ireland's Camino", the National Famine Way addresses the role that starvation and forced emigration played in shaping the modern Irish diaspora.

Over my summer vacation, I read several books. Among them was historian Tyler Anbinder’s book Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York.