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

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

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

Take some time to remove all the tubers, not matter how tiny, or they'll grow next year and disrupt that year's crops. Potato blight or 'late blight' is a devastating fungus disease that spreads ...

Although the potato isn’t really Irish, it has become Irish by association. So, this St. Patrick’s Day, make sure you include ...

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

The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost one-quarter. For nearly two centuries, historians with an Irish-nationalist bent have explained ...