The Great Famine, also known as The Great Hunger, is a significant chapter in Irish history and a tragedy that had enduring effects on the nation. There are numerous ways to learn about this ...

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 ...

First, it might interest you to know, that the size of Ireland’s population is a little more than half today (5 million people) of what it was in the pre-Famine era around 175 years ago (around ...

Queen Victoria - who was dubbed Ireland's 'Famine Queen' by revolutionary Maud Gonne - died on January 22, 1901. The Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had a deep ...