The National Famine Way™ Roadshow goes on tour during March 2026 visiting seven locations along the route of the long distance walk.

The UK’s largest Irish festival is to back a Belfast artist’s bid to share the relatively untold and harrowing story of our famine children across Britain and Ireland.

Thinking about watching 'The Great Irish Famine' on your favorite screen? Trying to locate where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to watch the Pete Lawrence-helmed movie can be tricky so we at ...

Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

The potato blight did not only affect Ireland; it caused widespread crop failures and famine in Europe, from Sweden all the way down to northern Spain, and many thousands of the poor in a number of ...

Patrick O’Donovan obviously wasn’t around in the 1840s for the great famine in Ireland. But the more the country’s minister for culture, communications and sport researches and studies the subject, ...

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 ...

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is coming to ...

Walkers jam the pavement, trying to keep to the left. Like many roads in rural Ireland, this one through the Doolough Valley is narrow. “I can’t wait to spread out,” I whisper to my niece, Shannon.

What caused the Irish famine? A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. Old Chapel Lane, Skibbereen, County Cork ...