A chillingly intact Irish famine workhouse that still stands in Laois, has been awarded €200,000 to preserve it into the ...

in “no other famine in the world [was] the proportion of people killed . . . as large as in the Irish famines in the 1840s.” The pathogen that caused it was a fungus-like water mold called ...

By the early 1840s ... 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.

Famine killed at least a million people ... Union, however, did not reduce the pressure on the Irish economy. By the 1840s, a fifth of Ireland’s population faced food insecurity every summer ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...

Dozens gathered at Penn's Landing on Monday on St. Patrick's Day to honor Irish immigrants who escaped to America following Ireland's famine in the 1800s.