HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) – While he grew up in New York, John Lahey recalls, the Irish famine was almost a taboo topic. But these days, the Quinnipiac University president and former grand marshal of the ...

Editor's Note: The below letter was shared with IrishCentral by signatory Dr John Cunningham of University of Galway today, Friday, March 15. The Irish Famine of c. 1846-50 resonates through Irish and ...

New research from the Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University and Queen's Business School in Belfast has examined the impact of the Great Irish Famine (1845–1852) on human height. The ...

Dr Dan Donovan saved thousands of lives during Ireland's Great Hunger ...

This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick on Saturday, May 17, 2025. The annual public ceremony, which will be broadcast on RTÉ News Now channel, will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tyler Anbinder didn’t know what he’d find when he started digging into a vast trove of records that had been locked inside a bank ...

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

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 ...

Strokestown Park and the National Famine Museum in County Roscommon have received their first-ever honour at the CIE Tours Awards of Excellence. The heritage attraction was recognised at the 34th ...

When Anelise Hanson Shrout was in graduate school at New York University, she read an account about how the Choctaw Nation donated to Ireland during the Great Famine, not long after the U.S. federal ...