Scituate was named "the most Irish town in America." A cottage industry known as "Irish Mossing" lies behind the town's ...

It has been nearly five years since Quinnipiac University closed Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum for unclear reasons. The art ...

The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...

In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

St. Patrick's Day is a week away, which makes now a fine time to read "Emerald Thread: The Irish in Buffalo." Timothy Bohen's ...

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 ...

The fascinating podcast was sparked when Dalrymple consistently heard references to Ireland while he researched Indian ...

(AP Photo) CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the ...

FILE - General view of Zamzam refugee camp after being attacked, outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Darfur region, Sudan, on Feb. 13, 2025. (Maxar Technologies via AP) ...

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 ...