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

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many ...

It is about this time each year when my thoughts wander back to the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations I have enjoyed in the past ...

Given the oppressive conditions under which they lived and worked, it’s hard to imagine how 19th Century Irish immigrants had time to volunteer as firefighters. Yet they did, according to firefighting ...

St Patrick's Day falls on a Monday this year, which means the day caps off a stretch of celebrations with the bulk of them ...