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 ...

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 ...

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

Roughly two of every three people born in Ireland in the early eighteen-thirties were killed by the famine or joined the exodus to North America, Britain, and Australia.

Thanks to emigration triggered by the Famine, people born in Ireland comprised almost one third of the total population of New York by 1855. The city was changed forever - but how? Anelise Hanson ...

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.

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.