From Ireland's Great Hunger to the brave Irish heroes of the US Civil War, Niall O'Dowd examines how Irish Famine emigrants changed the landscape of American history. Niall O'Dowd, Founder of ...

Curtis Sliwa accused the British Royal Family of neglecting to visit the famine memorial during their visit to New York City ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described the Great Hunger of 1845-1852 as the most devastating and traumatic event in Irish history. The Taoiseach was speaking at Ireland's National Famine Commemoration ...

The Famine Memorial marks the end of the National Famine Way, a 165-kilometer trail retracing the path of thousands who walked from Roscommon to Dublin in 1847. Life-sized bronze sculptures of ...

Two million Irish people emigrated in the immediate aftermath of the Famine. Of these 64% went to the US and by as early as 1850 the Irish were easily the biggest single ethnicity in the USA. We look ...

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 ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- On Staten Island, a simple famine marker in front of the St. George courthouse marks where the immigrants, mostly Irish, were buried with haste. The perfectly formed hill in ...

Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country's population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a ...