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 ...

In 1958, Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine. Sparrows were killed to protect grain, igniting a locust ...

In actuality, the Great Famine set the stage for generational animosity and a century and a half of turbulent violence. No singular act would lead to the creation of the Irish Republican Army, better ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Great Irish Songbook, their 2019 album, anchors this performance, with Jordan’s soaring voice reaching effortlessly into the furthest corners of the auditorium on Thursday night. Amplifying ...

Kimberley Connor has previously been a member of the Great Irish Famine Commemoration Committee ... Sydney and the importance of combining documentary research with archaeology to understand ...

With Roberts’s passing, the world of traditional song has lost one of its great voices and I encourage all readers to track down his music, it’s a fabulously rich body of work. May he rest in peace.

Here she gives us a glimpse of Leitrim life after the famine 150 years ago, Ireland had emerged from the Great Famine and was the seventh richest country in the ... And the decline continued steadily ...

A new documentary released to streaming services this Friday, THE FISH THIEF: A Great Lakes Mystery tells this story of the sea lamprey's rise and fall on the lakes. "The reason you have small ...

It may even recall Mel Brooks’ The Producers but for Wolfe Tones front man Brian Warfield writing a musical about the Irish Famine was a ... s what our story of the Great Hunger in Ireland ...