Many people know about the Great Depression, or the Syrian refugee crisis, but not as many people know about the Great Chinese Famine, another tragic event in history. The famine started with Chairman ...

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 ...

New research has found that the Irish rebels of the Irish Revolutionary period were more likely to come from families that were most affected during the Great Irish Famine. The study, entitled ‘The ...

A new book, Sligo & the Great Famine, 1845-52: ‘Walking Skeletons & Shadows’ by Dr Padraig Deignan will be launched in Liber Bookshop on Friday, November 7 at 5pm. This year marks the 180th ...

Author upends more than 150 years of assumptions about the approximately 1.3 million immigrants from Ireland who came to the United States during and just after the Great Famine of the 1840s. Tourists ...

A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. The premise of Rot, Padraic S. Scanlan’s comprehensive, elegantly ...

In a world so rich, a famine in Sudan is an indictment, not an inevitability. But is the world ready to see forced hunger as intolerable? That is the question today.

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 ...

Local volunteers from the Dundalk Famine Graveyard Association have launched an online plea seeking funding to preserve the ...

At the famine's conclusion, 1 million have perished and the survivors build new lives. The British government decides that further famine relief must be paid through raised land rates, forcing ...