Dr Dan Donovan saved thousands of lives during Ireland's Great Hunger ...

This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place at National Famine Museum in Roscommon and will include performances by musician Declan O'Rourke. The 2022 National Famine Commemoration will ...

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) – While he grew up in New York, John Lahey recalls, the Irish famine was almost a taboo topic. But these days, the Quinnipiac University president and former grand marshal of the ...

An investigation is underway into the shuttered Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University after a group fighting for its reopening raised questions with the state about the future of the ...

The American creator of a board game that is based on the Irish Famine has responded to the backlash from Irish people.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described the Great Hunger of 1845-1852 as the most devastating and traumatic event in Irish history. The Taoiseach was speaking at Ireland's National Famine Commemoration ...

When Anelise Hanson Shrout was in graduate school at New York University, she read an account about how the Choctaw Nation donated to Ireland during the Great Famine, not long after the U.S. federal ...

Architect and part-time game designer behind The Great Hunger hopes game will educate more Americans on the famine ...

A NEW board game themed around the Irish Famine has sparked controversy, with the Irish Emigration Museum labelling it “in very poor taste.” More than €13,000 has been crowdfunded to ...

DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - More than 300 lots of letters and reports dating from Ireland's Great Famine years will go under the hammer this week in the first auction of its kind, which has aroused much ...

Tyler Anbinder didn’t know what he’d find when he started digging into a vast trove of records that had been locked inside a bank — and inaccessible to the public — for nearly 150 years. One detail ...