The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...

Between 1845-1850, the Great Potato Famine created a mass exodus from Ireland, forcing two million citizens to board ships in search of better lives in the U.S. Jeanie Johnston was perhaps the ...

Ships flying the flag of disease were forced ... Murphy, Ryan, Johnson. The Irish famine gave rise to a movement called Young Ireland, who members swore to free their country from Britain by ...

Just a stone's throw away, you'll find The Jeanie Johnston, a replica of an old Famine Ship. It offers a glimpse into the harsh realities faced by those fleeing Ireland during and after the Famine ...

Notwithstanding the Act of Union, which purported to amalgamate two “sister kingdoms”, Ireland was not governed as if it were as British as Finchley. And during the Famine “the legacies of ...

His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.