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 ...
Monday is St. Patrick’s Day, and the greater Olean community has several festive events in store this weekend.
I left Tyneside in 1973 to work as a teacher in Derry. I have returned on many occasions during that time but would like to ...
Another wave of Irish immigration swept into Vinegar Hill in the 1840s. These newcomers were half-starved Famine survivors who had come over on the “coffin ships.” In January of 1847, these emigrants ...
Jane’s fiercely unforgiving tone was adopted by militant Irish nationalists for whom the famine stood as the ultimate proof of English perfidy. But in her poem, too, the victims appear as an ...
His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.