Ireland's National Famine Commemoration will be hosted at the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna, Co Galway, on Sunday, May ...

The Taoiseach has described the Great Famine as the most traumatic event in Ireland's recorded history. Micheál Martin said ...

Lessons of “compassion, solidarity and humanity” learnt from the Irish Famine will “continue to resonate” with future ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, accompanied by the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan and ...

Lessons of “compassion, solidarity and humanity” learned from the Irish famine will “continue to resonate” with future ...

A POIGNANT ceremony in Abbeyleix on Sunday was recorded for a new film on the area’s tragic history during the Great Famine.

At the Irish Workhouse Centre in County Galway, the Taoiseach said the Famine memorial is about remembering “an entire society” and the millions whose lives were shattered by the Great Famine. The ...

The National Famine Commemorations took place at the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna today. The commemorations aimed to ...

The Irish Family History Forum will present "Finding Ancestors in Irish Workhouses," with guest speaker Natalie Bodle, on ...

Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured ...

Investigators in Ireland have been pursuing an excruciating question: It is how women came to be stuck in a modern day workhouse. That's a kind of forced labor camp we associate with some earlier age, ...