The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

Gaza isn’t alone. Every modern famine since the dawn of the Industrial Age — whether it’s an act of subjugation against an obstinate population in an empire, an act of cruel indifference ...

But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past. It was a complex and modern political, ecological and economic disaster, shaped by Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom, and in the ...

An Taoiseach Simon Harris has urged the modern world to learn lessons from the Great Famine of the 1840s and 1850s. Mr Harris will speak at an event in Co Longford today about the importance of ...

Famine was declared in February 2017 in South Sudan, where some 100,000 people are facing starvation and a million more are on the brink. The IRC is predicting imminent famine in Somalia, Yemen and ...