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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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.