When Anelise Hanson Shrout was in graduate school at New York University, she read an account about how the Choctaw Nation donated to Ireland during the Great Famine, not long after the U.S. federal ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

The National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park in Co. Roscommon is set to host the 2025 Famine Summer School from May 29 to June 1, 2025. This annual international conference brings together scholars, ...

Statistics show that young, single Irish women were the largest group to immigrate to the U.S. in the late 19th and early ...

The National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, and Irish Heritage Trust have launched the Great Famine Voices 2023 season with a new film, The Famine Irish in New Brunswick. It tells the little-known ...

Patrick O’Donovan obviously wasn’t around in the 1840s for the great famine in Ireland. But the more the country’s minister for culture, communications and sport researches and studies the subject, ...

An unimaginable human tragedy, the Great Famine left a lasting legacy in how Irish people perceive themselves, and are perceived by others — but have Britons ever fully confronted this shocking ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with "Hamnet" author Maggie O'Farrell, whose new novel, "Land," draws on her own family's history with Ireland's Great Famine.