Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. Kennedy slashing 10,000 jobs in health department overhaul Big Changes Are Coming To KFC In ...

How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great Hunger and how "take the soup" became etched in Ireland's psyche. As we ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons.© ZME Science A 19th-century potato specimen from London’s Kew Gardens herbarium, collected during the height of the Irish famine in 1847.

the potato blight disease that spread across Europe from 1845 to 1849. In Ireland at the time, potatoes were the staple food of the poor, and in the 1840s, it is said that about 2.7 million people ...

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...

On the night of December 23rd, 1899, 65-year-old Hugh Dorian walked the streets of Derry looking for his wife, Catherine. He did not find her. Four days later, her body was taken out of the ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...