Yes, it began with the introduction of P. infestans, a fungus which devastated potato crops. But the fungus was so deadly ...

The Irish Famine Exhibition is seeking out items related to the Great Irish Hunger to mark the 175th anniversary of the Irish Potato Famine, in April 2020. Next year, 2020, marks the 175th anniversary ...

Although scientists have known that a funguslike organism caused the potato blight that triggered the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, they... An international group of plant pathologists has ...

It was spoken primarily by the rural poor; the expansion of state education, which began in the 1830s, meant that English ...

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 ...

Michael Sullivan, who comes from an Ojibwe mother and an Irish father, sees similarities between the two cultures in that there are those fighting to revitalize their languages in a world dominated by ...

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 life of Paul Strzelecki, a Polish explorer who saved over 200,000 children during the Great Irish Famine is being honored in a new exhibition in Dublin. Described as “one of the great ...

Ireland’s population has hit 5 million for the first time in 170 years — a time when the great Potato Famine ravaged the country. The republic’s population was estimated at 5.01 million in April, the ...