The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...
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 ...
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 - ...
From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans. Famine killed at least a million people. Some half again as many fled ...