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Remembering the Famine and its impact on the US -- Voices of those who survived still live on


    I gave a speech in Drogheda, Ireland, yesterday on the impact of the famine in America. I was one of several speakers, including Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who is speaking today on the occasion of the national comm ...

May 13, 2012 by Niall O'Dowd 43
The Irish famine

A walk through history - the horrific tale of a Mayo villages death during the Great Famine


Our guide has told the same story perhaps a thousand times yet still it brought a lump to her throat. ...

May 02, 2012 by FRANK MURPHY 3

The Irish condition and the silence that followed the Famine


The Irish potato famine Psychotherapy is something the Irish think you turn to only after booze, confession and prayer all fail. It’s the end of the li ...

April 25, 2012 by Cahir O'Doherty 12
Jeremy Paxman

Leading BBC anchor says Britain should not have said sorry to Irish over the famine


A prominent BBC presenter, Jeremy Paxman, has accused former British Prime Minister Tony Blair of "moral vacuousness" for his apology over Britain’s lack of help during the Irish famine. ...

February 24, 2012 by BERNIE MALONE 42

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary compares unemployment crisis to the Famine


Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has claimed it’s not his fault he is always right – after backing Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s claims that emigration is a lifestyle choice. ...

January 22, 2012 by PATRICK COUNIHAN 12
Workers of a public water project in north Galway have uncovered the skeletal remains of what are likely be victims of the Great Famine.

Uncovered remains likely to be victims of the Great Famine


Workers of a public water project in north Galway have uncovered the skeletal remains of what are likely be victims of the Great Famine. ...

January 15, 2012 by DARA KELLY 17

The Irish Famine, Haiti, the ghosts in our genes


The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” the writer William Faulkner ... ...

November 01, 2011 by Patricia Harty 6

From the Irish Famine to the Irish on Wall Street


As the editor of Irish America magazine, it was an interesting experience, to say the least, following up our issue commemorating the Great Hunger with one in which we profile Irish-American titans of Wall Street. In a way, those ...

November 01, 2011 by Patricia Harty 9

When Ireland Fell Silent by Harolyn Enis


Harolyn Enis’s When Ireland Fell Silent tells the fictional story of the Reilly family of Mayo, Ireland through the eyes of 18-year-old Liam Reilly. Spanning the years 1845 to 1847, the tale follows the Reillys as they struggle to ...

November 01, 2011 by Irish America columnist 2

Breakthrough in controlling blight that caused the Great Famine in Ireland


A new study may be able to control the disease that was behind the potato famine that killed billions of crops causing nearly one million deaths from starvation throughout Ireland in the mid 1800's. Scientists are now reporting ...

November 23, 2010 by ANTOINETTE KELLY 0
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