the potato blight disease that spread across Europe from 1845 to 1849. In Ireland at the time, potatoes were the staple food of the poor, and in the 1840s, it is said that about 2.7 million people ...

From the Famine to Fair City, it's clear that the relationship between the Irish and the Choctaw Nations is being actively ...

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...

How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great Hunger and how "take the soup" became etched in Ireland's psyche. As we ...

Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1847, Richard Webb, the rector of Caheragh, County Cork, sent a group of men to check on his parishioners.

St. Patrick's Day is a pretty big deal in America and Ireland. Due to nearly a quarter of Ireland's population immigrating to America in the late 1800s because of the Potato Famine, America has a lot ...