Ireland commemorates the Famine. Colin Lacey reports. Addressing a near-capacity crowd of almost 5,000 at the opening of The Great Famine Event in Millstreet, Co. Cork, Irish President Mary Robinson ...

There are few places in the world outside of Ireland that are as Irish as Glasgow, Scotland. Half a million people of Irish descent live in and ...

John Kelly’s The Graves are Walking: The History of the Great Irish Famine reflects this school of thought. But Coogan takes the argument a step further and argues that British policy, as carried out ...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day early by learning the story behind one of Cleveland’s most colorful corners during a free program at 6:30 p.m. March 10, at Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch, 8215 Mentor ...

There's no avoiding the fact we're in the thick of winter, but that doesn't mean it's time to hibernate with so much going on ...

When it comes to one of the most infamous disasters in Irish history, there's still more to be learned, including exactly ...

Next you’ll be telling me you had a Holocaust.’ At which point I had to explain gently that this was the very term republicans and much of Irish America were now using for the Great Famine of the late ...

The pathogen struck a major blow to the nation's potato crop, leaving widespread poverty and disease in its wake. The Great Famine that ensued, lasting from 1845 to 1852, marked a major crisis in ...

The population decimated Most of us have at least a sense of how the Great Famine in the mid-1800s decimated the population ... none spoke ‘Irish Only’, and only 144 – fewer than 1% – spoke Irish and ...

Later, they labeled themselves Scots-Irish in a bid to distinguish themselves from the Catholics fleeing Ireland during the potato famine of the ... that his third great-grandfather, Fulmoth ...

Toronto-based genre specialist Raven Banner arrives in Berlin with a sales line-up led by the Irish-language Galway Film ...

Researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen, Phtytophthora infestans, originated. Call it a mystery solved.