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

Charles Trevelyan was not a man who suffered overly from self-doubt. At the height of the Great Irish Famine in 1847, however ...

This famine killed an estimated one million people ... Many emigrants left Ireland in 1847. Those that were able to leave had very little to bring with them. Many did not have enough food to ...

In 1847, 50 people a day died of typhus at Grosse ... Murphy, Ryan, Johnson. The Irish famine gave rise to a movement called Young Ireland, who members swore to free their country from Britain ...

lasted between 1845 and 1852 and saw Ireland's population dramatically fall due to death and emigration to places like the UK, Canada, and the US. The worst year of the famine was 1847 ...

Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history, second only to the Black Death pandemic in death toll estimates - the Great Famine. Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine ...

February 26th, 1847: Soup is now considered the best hope and cheapest means of keeping the Irish alive until the ... The impact of the Famine is being experienced even in the wealthiest parts ...

An Irish mercenary fighting for the British in 1847 abandons his post and returns home, hoping to be reunited with his family ...

McBane wrote a book released two years ago about Mother Élisabeth Bruyère, the nun who founded Ottawa's first hospital, and ...