Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...

The above newspaper illustration is one of the most iconic images from Ireland’s Great ... and survived, during Ireland's Famine years of 1845 - 1852. But the woman is not a mere symbol.

North Carolina Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would impose work requirements on people enrolled in the ...

A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

From the Famine to Fair City, it's clear that the relationship between the Irish and the Choctaw Nations is being actively ...

By Richard Grant Photographs by Jeanette Lowe Austin ... and of no obvious interest to the Choctaw people: the Great Famine in Ireland. The historical record doesn’t reveal exactly what ...

So begins, Rot, Padraic X Scanlan’s disturbing and insightful account of the Irish famine. The “Great Hunger” reverberates deeply in the Irish cultural psyche, akin to the Great War for Britain.

Notwithstanding the Act of Union, which purported to amalgamate two “sister kingdoms”, Ireland was not governed as if it were as British as Finchley. And during the Famine “the legacies of ...