known widely as the potato famine, that killed 1 million Irish, with a million more fleeing to America to escape it between 1845 and 1852. The memorial will start with a concrete and steel plaza ...

The historic photo was displayed as part of The Irish Potato Famine exhibit hosted at Dublin's Stephen's Green Shopping Center, Dublin. The exhibition was curated by historian Gerard McCarthy ...

The potato famine also affected Irish-speaking people, and accelerated the Englishification of Irish society. It has been noted that while many Irish people spoke Irish before the famine ...

The sculptor who created the well-known famine memorial on Dublin’s quays, has revealed his late father “refused to look at” the work as he felt their family hadn’t suffered during that time.

Its effect on the potato gives “Rot,” a vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan, its title. The blight began to infect the crop across much of ...

But all four of us were wondering about the Irish potato famine but wanted to know more ... the director of the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Museum since 2022, but her involvement with ...