The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

As spring approaches, farmers across the state prepare for potato season — the planting process begins after the last hard ...

I did cook the requisite corned beef, cabbage and potatoes, yesterday, the Holy Day, March 17. I also offered a meatless ...

Although the potato isn’t really Irish, it has become Irish by association. So, this St. Patrick’s Day, make sure you include ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost one-quarter. For nearly two centuries, historians with an Irish-nationalist bent have explained ...