However, no people were as heavily dependent on the potato as the Irish. Scanlan starkly figures the inevitable disaster: Between 1845 and 1851, at least 1 million people died of famine-related ...

A million people are said to have died of hunger in Ireland in the late 1840s, on the doorstep of the world's richest nation. ... But in the Irish famine of the late 1840s, ...

In 1847, the Choctaw people collected $170 to send to people in Ireland who were starving as a result of the potato famine. Now, people in Ireland are paying it forward.

More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. A sculpture in County Cork commemorates the generosity of the tribe, itself poor. In recen… ...

Failure of the potato crop evoked horrific memories for some who had lived through the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s ...

Western Ireland during the famine. | Hulton Archive/GettyImages. By the 1840s, nearly half of Ireland’s people relied on a successful potato crop for survival.The dependence on one sole crop ...

In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder paints a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland.

Friendship in the Irish Famine, an under-told story of selflessness The bond between the Native American Choctaw Nation and the Irish people stretches back to the Great Hunger.

Although the famine is a very well-known part of Irish history, many Irish people believe it is misleading to call it a "famine" at all, and today many are scrutinizing Britain's role in the ...

Reading that historical account of philanthropy in the 1800s led Shrout on a quest that spanned 15 years as she researched the international aid that came to the Irish people during the Great Famine, ...

In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder paints a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland.