the potato blight disease that spread across Europe from 1845 to 1849. In Ireland at the time, potatoes were the staple food of the poor, and in the 1840s, it is said that about 2.7 million people ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...

Padraic X. Scanlan is an associate professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. His latest ...

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. Tsunami warning after huge 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits Tonga's coast Canazei, Italy – A ...

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...

How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great Hunger and how "take the soup" became etched in Ireland's psyche. As we ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...

Dublin, 25 July 1916 - The Dublin coal strike, which has now entered its second week, is in absolute deadlock. The strike means that there is no coal coming into the city and most of the coal ...

Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history, second only to the Black Death pandemic in death toll estimates - the Great Famine. Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine ...