Regardless of how the long-delayed, welcome ceasefire in Gaza plays out, there are historic parallels that shed a warning on ...

The “horrors, genocide and famine in Gaza” cannot be “forgotten”, Ireland’s deputy premier has said, as he welcomed the ...

The Great Hunger: 1M dead, 2M fled, & Fenians invading Canada for Ireland is where it led. The Great Hunger, or the potato famine, devastated Ireland, causing 1 million deaths and driving two million ...

The Irish potato famine of 1845–52 resulted in more than a million deaths. Another million people were displaced, and Ireland’s population was reduced by about 25%. The cause of widespread potato rot ...

In the 1840s, a million people in Ireland died of starvation in a famine called the An Gorta Mór aggravated by British ...

The figures by the River Liffey in Dublin are more clothes than flesh. The Famine Memorial, created by Rowan Gillespie, holds ...

Ireland's Taoiseach Micheal Martin and Tanaiste Simon Harris have welcomed the US announcement that Israel and Hamas have ...

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 ...

Tánaiste Simon Harris to brief Cabinet on peace plan while Ministers also to mull legislation for rental-sector changes ...

Many are probably aware of the Irish origins of the creator of Dracula, the 1897 novel that codified vampirism and profoundly influenced the horror genre. Bram Stoker was born in Dublin and attended ...

Ireland’s Ambassador to Canada Eamonn McKee is following in the footsteps of Famine emigrants from Strokestown, in Roscommon, to Dublin with a group of walkers along the National Famine Way. The ...