The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer ... for about six months so I have a lot of information people might not have seen before, particularly from private ...

in “no other famine in the world [was] the proportion of people killed . . . as large as in the Irish famines in the 1840s.” The pathogen that caused it was a fungus-like water mold called ...

Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many ...

The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...

Donations to Irish people from indigenous communities in Canada during the Great Famine - valued at around €12,000 today - ...