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

The source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine has finally been identified. Researchers from North Carolina State University have pinpointed the Andes Mountains in South America as ...

Groundbreaking new research identifies the Andes as the origin of the Irish potato famine pathogen, reshaping efforts to combat crop diseases. A groundbreaking study by North Carolina State University ...

Cork, Irish President Mary Robinson said that commemoration of the Famine was a moral act that should remember the victims ... The evening opened in a contemporary vein with Maighread Meadh’s “Potato ...

A 19th-century potato specimen from London’s Kew Gardens herbarium, collected during the height of the Irish famine in 1847. Credit: Marco Thines/Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.

Call it a mystery solved. North Carolina State University researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen, Phtytophthora ...

Both the right and left in America celebrate the tradition of welcoming immigrants who wish to assimilate and become productive members of the American nation. But America has another great, if ...

North Carolina State University researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen, Phtytophthora infestans, originated.

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while ...

Later, they labeled themselves Scots-Irish in a bid to distinguish themselves from the Catholics fleeing Ireland during the potato famine of the 1840s. It better served those running for the ...

This interactive museum details 1,500 years of Irish history, with stories of the 100 million people who left Ireland, how and where they lived, and their impact on the rest of the world.

House District 10 Representative Junie Joseph on the state of the nation, inclusivity and how America can restore its falling star.