Many of them didn't even have shoes. But they will be remembered by a pair of bronze shoes The National Irish Famine Way has ...

The story of Eily, Michael and Peggy fending for themselves in the Irish famine of the mid 19th century will be brought to ...

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

On Sunday, May 18, the Gaelic American Club in Fairfield, Connecticut, hosted the 2nd Annual Irish Famine Commemoration Day Ceremony, an event held in conjunction with Ireland's Great Hunger Museum of ...

Launched in March, A Family History Of… is a weekly podcast built around monthly themed series that bring major moments from ...

This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick on Saturday, May 17, 2025. The annual public ceremony, which will be broadcast on RTÉ News Now channel, will ...

One of Ireland’s best-loved children’s stories has been brought to life in a new immersive exhibition at a Co Tyrone museum.

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - More than 300 lots of letters and reports dating from Ireland's Great Famine years will go under the hammer this week in the first auction of its kind, which has aroused much ...

Labour TD Conor Sheehan recently made the claim in the Dáil.