As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

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 ...

Areas hardest hit by the Great Irish Famine did not experience an expected stunting in height of the population, new academic research has found. The research from Queen’s Business School in Belfast ...

North Carolina State University researchers continue to track the evolution of different strains of the plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, which set down roots in the ...

The National Famine Way is a 165km walking and cycling trail following in the footsteps of the 1,490 famine victims who left Strokestown on a forced emigration to Canada in 1847. The multi-layered ...

In the spring of 1847, during the height of the Great Famine, 1,490 Irish men, women and children were evicted by the British from their homes and forced to travel 103 miles on foot along the Royal ...

Epigenetic programming from prolonged undernutrition and terror can persist 3–4 generations, plausibly contributing to elevated cardiometabolic and mental health ...

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, ...