Paul Ryan has emerged as an unexpected ally in the push for immigration reform. Appearing at a forum to push the bill forward on Monday Ryan provided a context for his interest in the issue.

Irish in Toronto are upset that Ireland Park, Toronto’s famine memorial, has been closed since 2010 despite constant promises from the authorities to re-open it.

Scientists have finally identified the strain of potato blight that caused the Irish famine and led to a million deaths and mass starvation.

A West of Ireland town has remembered those who died or were forced to emigrate in the famine that robbed it of half its population.

Irish children in primary and secondary schools have been asked to hold a minute's silence to remember those who died in the Great Famine.

The annual National Famine Commemoration is being held in Kilrush, Co Clare on Sunday, May 12, 2013. The town has been hosting related events throughout the week.

A new report from the Central Statistics Office shows Ireland may be on pace to reach and pass the population total from before the Great Famine by the year 2046. 

The Irish Famine Tribunal, which plans to examine the responsibility of the British government, under international law, for the tragic events of this period of Irish history, will be convened at Fordham Law School this weekend.

On April 20-21, 2013, Fordham Law School will be hosting the Irish Famine Tribunal to examine the responsibility of the British Government, under international law, for the tragic consequences of this period.

An Antrim potato farmer has re-cultivated a variety of potato at the root of the Great Famine, making it available in Ireland for the first time in almost 170 years.

Dance show creator, Michael Flatley, has presented Taoiseach Enda Kenny with an abstract painting of the victims of the famine entitled ‘The Walking Dead.' The painting is 8ft by 4ft in size and was framed in London using wood from trees grown on Flatley’s Castlehyde estate near Fermoy, Co. Cork.

A lot of the Irish Workhouses fell into ruin or were burned down in the years after the Famine, but one of the few remaining can be found in the town of Carrick-on-Shannon.

Scientists at UC Riverside in California have discovered the genetic trigger for the Great Potato Famine in phytophthora, a genus of molds that infest potatoes, soybeans, tomatoes and avocados. It was known that phytopthora caused the potato rot but not how it took hold.

Irish immigrants, who fled the famine and arrived on US shores, were exceptional savers, according to the most recent issue of the Journal of American History.

Documentary film ‘Famine and Shipwreck: An Irish Odyssey’ tells the gripping story of a group of Irish emigrants’ flight from the famine, their fight to survive shipwreck, and to start a new life in Canada.

One hundred and sixty years after Irish famine emigrants built St. Brigid’s church in the lower east side of Manhattan the church was re-opened again after a massive private donation of $20 million.