Dr Dan Donovan saved thousands of lives during Ireland's Great Hunger ...

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) – While he grew up in New York, John Lahey recalls, the Irish famine was almost a taboo topic. But these days, the Quinnipiac University president and former grand marshal of the ...

The American creator of a board game that is based on the Irish Famine has responded to the backlash from Irish people.

This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick on Saturday, May 17, 2025. The annual public ceremony, which will be broadcast on RTÉ News Now channel, will ...

A NEW board game themed around the Irish Famine has sparked controversy, with the Irish Emigration Museum labelling it “in very poor taste.” More than €13,000 has been crowdfunded to ...

Editor's Note: The below letter was shared with IrishCentral by signatory Dr John Cunningham of University of Galway today, Friday, March 15. The Irish Famine of c. 1846-50 resonates through Irish and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Architect and part-time game designer behind The Great Hunger hopes game will educate more Americans on the famine ...

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 ...