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Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish history. The Great Famine (1845 to 1852) saw the death of around a million people and the forced emigration of a similar ...
Down in Ballydehob, 100 kilometres away, Kevin Ireland was expecting me and it was already midday. He did not drive and had no phone, although he told me I could ring Jack O’Connor at his bookshop in ...
A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...
On your next trip to Ireland, walk in the footsteps of your ancestors and connect with your Irish roots. The experts at ...
North Carolina Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would impose work requirements on people enrolled in the ...
Libraries in the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon area are hosting a range of free events this April, offering something for ...
The museum tells the story of the Great Famine through the personal tragedies of the tenants on the Strokestown Estate and of their landlords, the once prosperous Pakenham Mahon family.
A new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save the country's disappearing thatched ...
The long-standing dream to create a memorial park in Montreal at the site of the largest mass grave of Irish famine victims outside of Ireland is one step closer to realization.
From the Famine to Fair City, it's clear that the relationship between the Irish and the Choctaw Nations is being actively ...
A Galway U-20 hurling team with the potential to end the county’s 14-year All-Ireland title famine in the grade swamped a ...
Such is the twisted turf war between Infantino's Fifa and Aleksander Čeferin that Ireland were deemed good enough for the World Cup but not the Euros ...