In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. ..

The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

I did cook the requisite corned beef, cabbage and potatoes, yesterday, the Holy Day, March 17. I also offered a meatless ...

His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.

Scanlan shows in “Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine,” is much more complex ... and to the introduction of free trade in 1845, which drew Ireland’s large-scale production of ...