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 ...

It is generally believed that McCarty's mother was a survivor of the Great Irish Famine of the mid-19th century. There, she met William Antrim, who was 12 years her junior. In 1873, after several ...

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

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

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

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 ...