A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

a blight that may be with us still. Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan Robinson/Basic Books £25/$32, 352 pages ...

Used frequently to accompany books, articles ... and survived, during Ireland's Famine years of 1845 - 1852. But the woman is not a mere symbol. She was a real person with a real story ...

Irish writers John Connolly, Marita Conlon-McKenna and Elaine Feeney, will be interviewed over three separate evenings in May at Kennys Bookshop in Liosbán, Galway city.

I am talking about those who came before us, who lifted us up from fleeing the Famine to the No Irish Need Apply signs to the prominent positions we hold now. The last "No Irish Need Apply" sign ...

"I want to talk about Ireland. Specifically, I want to talk about the famine..." Credit: Mashable Composite; Paul Bergen / Redferns / Getty / TikTok Sinéad O'Connor's life was marred with ...