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

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

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

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

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

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by listening to popular Irish songs from The Cranberries, Ed Sheeran and Hozier. Add these to ...

An Irish mercenary fighting for the British in 1847 abandons his post and returns home, hoping to be reunited with his family ...

A US-based charity which provides hospital treatment in American for child victims of the war on Gaza benefitted last night ...

Headlined by artists and writers from Irish America ... with his self-penned ‘Black ‘47’ ballad which tells the story of An Gorta Mór and names the British culprits behind the policies which caused ...