Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

A letter to the Cork Examiner published on this day in 1847 shines a light on the "nefarious" practice of "soul-jobbing" during the Irish Famine. The irate letter attempted to "draw public attention ...

In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the Promised Land. Instead, when she went to North America via Liverpool, she ...

The potato blight did not only affect Ireland; it caused widespread crop failures and famine in Europe, from Sweden all the way down to northern Spain, and many thousands of the poor in a number of ...

It’s July 27, 1847. My third great grandparents and their four children step from the gangplank of a crowded three-masted ship onto a pier in lower Manhattan. Thomas Carolan is 40, Elizabeth Smyth, 30 ...

People in Ireland inspired by an act of generosity committed more than 170 years ago are paying it forward. In 1847, the Choctaw people collected $170 to send to people in Ireland who were starving ...

Outlines the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the famine to occur and charts the first 3 years of the crisis in Ireland and Europe. In Ireland we see how the British government’s ...

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick’s Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840′s leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...