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 ...

HOUSATONIC -- The next production to be staged at Jacob's Pillow is not small potatoes. On Friday and Saturday Community Access to the Arts (CATA), in cooperation with Jacob's Pillow Community Dance ...

Ireland’s population has hit 5 million for the first time in 170 years — a time when the great Potato Famine ravaged the country. The republic’s population was estimated at 5.01 million in April, the ...

In 1845, a devastating blight killed the potato crop in Ireland, and famine swept the nation. As crops continued to fail from 1845 to 1852, a million Irish people died of starvation and disease, and ...

Is there a simple answer to this question? I was a little stunned when this question came in. I hope teachers still touch on the Irish Potato Famine in lessons on immigration in grade and high school.

If you’ve had to change your buying habits at the supermarket lately to save money, you’re not alone. The stratospheric rise in food prices in the last three years has forced many families to forgo ...

Michael Sullivan, who comes from an Ojibwe mother and an Irish father, sees similarities between the two cultures in that there are those fighting to revitalize their languages in a world dominated by ...

The evolution of differing strains of Phytophthora infestans, a major cause of late-blight disease on potato and tomato plants, was studied and recently featured in “Scientific Reports.” Plant ...

Quinnipiac University, which had opened Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum in 2012, said that it could no longer afford to operate it. By Colin Moynihan In the mid-1990s John L. Lahey, the president of ...

EJ Antoni is a public finance economist and the Richard F. Aster research fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. If you’ve had to change your buying ...