Gripping period drama set in Connemara during the Great Irish Famine. It follows the fortunes of a soldier who deserts his ...

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

Learn about Black ’47, the year 75,000 Irish refugees fleeing the Famine landed on Montreal’s wharves. The tour visits key sites associated with this tragedy, such as the locations of fever sheds, ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. US Ally in Asia ...

Plus - Early Music Day is this Friday, celebrated every year on 21 March: JS Bach's birthday, spring equinox. Vlad will have ...

In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...

For many descendants of Irish emigrants, the Great Famine is the anchor for a common – if often distant and attenuated – identity, commemorated by monuments like the Black Rock, set in the ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

St. Patrick's Day is a week away, which makes now a fine time to read "Emerald Thread: The Irish in Buffalo." Timothy Bohen's ...