As the food crisis ... Love Irish history? Share your favorite stories with other history buffs in the IrishCentral History Facebook group. With the onset of the Great Famine, his health crumbled.

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

to fluctuating food markets, and to wages driven downward by the pressure of too many laborers looking for too little work. Militant Irish nationalism would follow Jane Wilde in seeing the famine ...

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

on the ethics of food exports amidst famine. And it should ask why these patterns persist into our own time. Love Irish history? Share your favorite stories with other history buffs in the ...

The Irish have endured famine ... they defied pain and suffering through their legendary wit. In response to famine: “We had three meals a day — one on Monday, one on Wednesday and one ...

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 ...

Scanlan shows in “Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine,” is much more complex ... was the widespread cultivation of a ...

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