Irish ate more pork than beef, but English demands and low prices in the U.S. played a role in creating the annual holiday ...

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

Two farmers are regrowing the Irish linen industry while restoring wildlife, reconnecting communities, and regenerating food ...

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

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

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

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

The Irish have endured famine, oppression, and war. Rather than succumbing to these miseries, they defied pain and suffering ...

But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past ... Ireland began to export more food. Landlords subdivided their estates to generate rent. Potatoes, which produced good yields on small ...

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