Books & the Arts / A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. John Banville The premise of Rot, Padraic S.

an Irish boy escaping the potato famine, and the Holy Family of Nazareth. At the sculpture’s center, angel wings are visible, alluding to the sacredness of the migrant and refugee. The sculptor, ...

So begins, Rot, Padraic X Scanlan’s disturbing and insightful account of the Irish famine. The “Great Hunger” reverberates deeply in the Irish cultural psyche, akin to the Great War for Britain.

loaded with more than 800 tons of provisions and supplies for the starving people of Ireland in the darkest months of “Black 1847,” the year the Irish famine peaked. The New England Relief ...

The above newspaper illustration is one of the most iconic images from Ireland’s Great Hunger. Used frequently to accompany books, articles, and exhibitions about An Gorta Mór, the mother and ...