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

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

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

The enthusiastically received Irish-language film shows how film can cut through the noise of history, politics and culture ...

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

The biggest Irish boxing card in New York City history is coming to The Theater at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, March 16 ...

British policy makers could only imagine relief based on the principles of the free market. But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past. It was a complex and modern political ...

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.

We must learn from the Irish that neither overconfidence nor overreaction is a good idea – that the only way to successfully ...

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