On entering the Workhouse in Athy during the famine, the men were separated from the women, the women separated from their ...

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

An Irish minister who delivered an impassioned speech at the 2026 International Famine Commemoration said that the British ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

STUDENTS and staff of SETU, in collaboration with Afri (Action from Ireland) and the Delta Centra, took part in an annual commemorative walk on Friday 17 April to remember those who died during 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 ...

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 ...