Of the 4,114 Irish Famine orphan girls sent to Australia, 94 were from County Tyrone and 21 of those girls came from ...

Cormac Moore: Ireland’s ‘forgotten famine’ of 1925 Failure of the potato crop evoked horrific memories for some who had lived through the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s ...

What caused the Irish famine? A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. Old Chapel Lane, Skibbereen, County ...

Before and after the famine, politicians haggled over the “burden” of a backwards Ireland, lagging behind Britain on the road of progress.

Increasingly hailed as "Ireland's Camino", the National Famine Way addresses the role that starvation and forced emigration played in shaping the modern Irish diaspora.

The new Dunbrody Famine Ship visitor experience in New Ross, Co. Wexford was officially opened last week by Taoiseach Simon Harris. This enhanced visitor experience follows an investment of €1.6 ...

The new Dunbrody Famine Ship experience, in New Ross, County Wexford, tells the story of Irish emigration and the impact of the Great Famine. The new educational tourist attraction is expected to ...

Author upends more than 150 years of assumptions about the approximately 1.3 million immigrants from Ireland who came to the United States during and just after the Great Famine of the 1840s.

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.

America’s handling of the Irish Famine migrant crisis in the 1850s is a guide for immigration today, writes Tyler Anbinder.