The Cold War era was marked by political tension, espionage, and a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet ...

The British Prime Minister Lord John Russell told the House of Commons, in January, 1847, that “the famine is such as has not been known in modern times; indeed, I should say it is like a famine ...

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 ...

Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...

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 ...