The Taoiseach has described the Great Famine as the most traumatic event in Ireland's recorded history. Micheál Martin said ...

Irish minister Patrick O'Donovan said that 'modern dictators' could follow the handbook of the British government to learn ...

Areas hardest hit by the Great Irish Famine did not experience an expected stunting in height of the population, new academic research has found. The research from Queen’s Business School in Belfast ...

The National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, and Irish Heritage Trust have launched the Great Famine Voices 2023 season with a new film, The Famine Irish in New Brunswick. It tells the little-known ...

The immersive National Famine Museum, located in Ireland's Strokestown Park House and Gardens in County Roscommon, reopened following a multimillion-dollar redevelopment. The museum, which brings to ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with "Hamnet" author Maggie O'Farrell, whose new novel, "Land," draws on her own family's history with Ireland's Great Famine.

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

The devastating Irish potato famine triggered an "arms race" between plants and pathogens, reveals new research. A ground-breaking examination of the genetic material found in historic potato leaves ...

At the Irish Workhouse Centre in County Galway, the Taoiseach said the Famine memorial is about remembering “an entire society” and the millions whose lives were shattered by the Great Famine. The ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...