The ever-increasing death toll and the need to provide coffins for internments created demands on the finances of the Board ...

during Ireland's Famine years of 1845 - 1852. But the woman is not a mere symbol. She was a real person with a real story – and, as a scholarly essay argues, the subject of what was possibly the ...

Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish history. The Great Famine (1845 to 1852) saw the ...

As a result, poverty was widespread in Ireland. When the potato famine occurred in 1845, the potato harvest in Ireland was poor, and many people suffered from hunger. Seeing this, British Prime ...

From 1845-52, about a million people died ... Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan Robinson/Basic Books £25/$32, 352 pages ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...

"I want to talk about Ireland. Specifically, I want to talk about the famine..." Credit: Mashable Composite; Paul Bergen / Redferns / Getty / TikTok Sinéad O'Connor's life was marred with ...

Books & the Arts / A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. John Banville The premise of Rot, Padraic S.