When a devastating blight struck the potato crops, it unleashed a famine of unimaginable proportions, leaving a profound ...

The Great Famine Voices team recently shared newly discovered archival records of Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee First Nations’ donations for Irish Famine relief in Canada West (now Ontario) in 1847 at ...

Many people know about the Great Depression, or the Syrian refugee crisis, but not as many people know about the Great Chinese Famine, another tragic event in history. The famine started with Chairman ...

When Anelise Hanson Shrout was in graduate school at New York University, she read an account about how the Choctaw Nation donated to Ireland during the Great Famine, not long after the U.S. federal ...

The National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, and Irish Heritage Trust have launched the Great Famine Voices 2023 season with a new film, The Famine Irish in New Brunswick. It tells the little-known ...

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 ...

Author upends more than 150 years of assumptions about the approximately 1.3 million immigrants from Ireland who came to the United States during and just after the Great Famine of the 1840s. Tourists ...