The 1879 famine may not have seen the same levels of death and emigration as the Great Hunger (known in Irish as an Gorta Mór) just three decades earlier, but Ireland endured raging hunger that ...

Failure of the potato crop evoked horrific memories for some who had lived through the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s ...

How Irish Famine immigrants changed life in New York and created an everlasting home for Irish-Americans. ... In 1879 the construction of St Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown Manhattan was completed.

THE APPROACHING IRISH FAMINE.; ... Dec. 25, 1879. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 25, 1879, Page 1 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

In 1847, as hundreds of thousands were dying during the Irish potato famine, an American warship laden with food crossed the Atlantic. It was a humanitarian mission that changed the world.

Learn the harrowing history of the Irish Famine and the British government response, as shown on Victoria Season 2, starring Jenna Coleman, on MASTERPIECE on PBS.

Victim-blaming and a worship of the free-market system made the Irish Famine much worse. The death toll from Covid-19 shows we have not fully learned from the past.

In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder paints a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland.

The Irish catastrophe. The Great Famine in Ireland began as a natural catastrophe of extraordinary magnitude, but its effects were severely worsened by the actions and inactions of the Whig ...