The bones recovered from Canada's Cap-des-Rosiers beach indicated a diet low in protein and severe malnutrition, confirming they were very likely victims of the Great Famine of Ireland.

All the same, he never once visited Ireland during the famine years. By 1847—“Black ‘47,” as the Irish call it—starvation was at its worst. In February, the House of Commons in London ...

The cool and collected broadcaster Miriam O'Callaghan fell for her co-worker when they met making a documentary about the ...

The central contention in 'Rot' is that Westminster’s response to the starvation was defined by its overarching commitment to the principles of the free market ...

Although eradicated in 1829, the Penal Laws left generational scars felt during and long after the famine. Many rural Irish Catholics in the mid-19th century had little opportunity for advancement ...

A pamphlet about famine relief rests on the floor ... The only crop that failed in Ireland during the Great Hunger was the potato. “Wheat, barley, corn, oats and grazing land for livestock ...

The President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins paid tribute to the First Nations of Canada and Native Americans for their ...

Earl Grey scheme' memorial unveiling was attended by a great, great granddaughter of one of the girls sent to Australia ...