In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder paints a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland.

How Irish Famine immigrants changed life in New York and created an everlasting home for Irish-Americans.

The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...

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

📜 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 ...

The Queen's death sparked a discussion on about the Famine as part of a conversation about colonialism and imperialism and the late royal's role in it.

The peak of Irish emigration occurred during the famine of the mid-1800s. Over a ten-year period, the failure of the potato crop prompted an estimated quarter of the Irish population to set sail ...