As emotive as the subject may be, Rot moves beyond sentiment, ideology and the false comforts of denial and denunciation.

In a preface to the monumental “Atlas of the Great Irish Famine,” published in 2012, the former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, observed that “for many years the event was cloaked in ...

But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past. It was a complex and modern political, ecological and economic disaster, shaped by Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom, and in the ...

Lincoln was one of 15,000 people worldwide to donate money to Ireland during the Great Irish Famine. This is according to evidence unearthed by respected Irish historian Christine Kinealy ...

Ireland's rich history is often commemorated and celebrated through events, art, and education, with some residual tensions ...

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More than 100 students from Sancta Maria College Louisburg walk through the Doolough Valley on same route as in 1849 during ...

An exhibition about a forgotten Polish hero from the Great Irish Famine, has launched in Tipperary today. Carrick-on-Suir ...

Get whisked away to “The Most Irish Town in America!” Thanks to immigrants from the Emerald Isle who settled here during the ...

Those plans represent the San Francisco Irish Great Famine Memorial Plaza, and sometime before St. Patrick’s Day, Uniacke will file them with the building department — to begin, at last ...