Statistics show that young, single Irish women were the largest group to immigrate to the U.S. in the late 19th and early ...

Ireland's 2026 International Famine Commemoration will be hosted in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on Sunday, May 10. The International Famine Commemoration is held annually to honor the victims of An Gorta ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s exquisite new novel, Land, is a haunting tale of loss, endurance and renewal. Spanning generations and ...

Translator Máire Nic Mhaoláin, Australia’s Ambassador to Ireland Chantelle Taylor and author Evelyn Conlon at the launch of ...

Join our new geography community for GeoLex at <a href="https://www.thebight.co/">https://www.thebight.co/</a> Find us on ...

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. Sheets of ...

Wolfe Tones star Brian Warfield has put his money where his mouth is, selling his house to fund his passion project about the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday at the age of 96, the longest ...

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 ...

Ancestral or so-called DNA tourism has always been important to Ireland's incoming tourism trade, fueled by wholesale emigration during the Great Famine of the mid-1800s and the resulting diaspora.

This year's National Famine Commemoration will take place at National Famine Museum in Roscommon and will include performances by musician Declan O'Rourke. The 2022 National Famine Commemoration will ...

Maggie O'Farrell's new novel, Land, is published after the success of the film adaptation of Hamnet.