Two million Irish people emigrated in the immediate aftermath of the Famine. Of these 64% went to the US and by as early as 1850 the Irish were easily the biggest single ethnicity in the USA. We look ...

In the 1840s, a catastrophic famine brought about the decimation of Ireland’s poor and the exodus of millions from the island. This major, ground-breaking documentary, narrated by Liam Neeson, ...

The Great Hunger: 1M dead, 2M fled, & Fenians invading Canada for Ireland is where it led. The Great Hunger, or the potato famine, devastated Ireland, causing 1 million deaths and driving two million ...

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 ...

Tyler Anbinder didn’t know what he’d find when he started digging into a vast trove of records that had been locked inside a bank — and inaccessible to the public — for nearly 150 years. One detail ...

The hauntingly preserved Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna has been chosen as the setting for the National Famine Commemoration in May 2026. This decision marks the first time the solemn state event ...

Ireland's International Commemoration of the Great Irish Famine will be hosted in Chicago this year, Ireland's Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, and Chair of the National Famine ...

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

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 ...

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.