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

Two farmers are regrowing the Irish linen industry while restoring wildlife, reconnecting communities, and regenerating food ...

to fluctuating food markets, and to wages driven downward by the pressure of too many laborers looking for too little work. Militant Irish nationalism would follow Jane Wilde in seeing the famine ...

But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past ... Ireland began to export more food. Landlords subdivided their estates to generate rent. Potatoes, which produced good yields on small ...

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 ...

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