Scientists in Sweden have taken an important step toward fighting potato late blight, a plant disease that once triggered a ...

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 exhibit has been created in collaboration with Quinnipiac University and Ireland's Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield. It ...

Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured ...

Walkers jam the pavement, trying to keep to the left. Like many roads in rural Ireland, this one through the Doolough Valley is narrow. “I can’t wait to spread out,” I whisper to my niece, Shannon.

On September 25th, 2024, the bond between Ireland and Connecticut was further solidified through a collaboration between two groups—one based in Connecticut and the other in Cork. This partnership, ...

Ireland's International Commemoration of the Great Irish Famine will be hosted in Chicago this year, Ireland's Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, and Chair of the National Famine ...

HAMDEN >> As one of the foremost scholars on the Great Hunger — the Irish potato famine that took place in the mid-19th century — Quinnipiac University professor Christine Kinealy is well acquainted ...

The Great Hunger: 1M dead, 2M fled, & Fenians invading Canada for Ireland is where it led. The Great Hunger, or the potato famine, devastated Ireland, causing 1 million deaths and driving two million ...

DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - More than 300 lots of letters and reports dating from Ireland's Great Famine years will go under the hammer this week in the first auction of its kind, which has aroused much ...