These 14 victims were among the 6,000 Irish buried in a mass grave at Pointe-Sainte-Charles. The "Black Rock" one of the oldest Famine memorials was erected by the Irish construction workers who ...

Groundbreaking new research identifies the Andes as the origin of the Irish potato famine pathogen, reshaping efforts to ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have pinpointed the Andes Mountains as the birthplace of the infamous Irish ...

A memorial for people who died or emigrated abroad during the Great Irish Famine will take place in Longford on May 19. This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place in Edgeworthstown ...

Irish Famine: How Ulster was devastated by its impact ... which suggested there was a mass grave of shipwreck victims on the beach. "Our skeletons reflect what we eat," she said, adding that ...

Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history, second only to the Black Death pandemic in death toll estimates - the Great Famine. Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine ...

North Carolina State University researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where ...

Thinking about a mud cabin, for example, as a “biotic ecosystem” shared by people and animals, allows us to get past condescending or racist accounts of the Irish poor and enables Taylor to ...

Such conditions mean that the camp in North Darfur earlier this year achieved the grim distinction of being formally declared the first famine in the world for seven years. Cut off by front lines ...

and Irish dance and music lessons. Gaelic Park is also home to the Chicago Famine Memorial, paying tribute to the Irish lives ...

Researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen, Phtytophthora infestans, originated. Call it a mystery solved.