Scanlan starkly figures the inevitable disaster: Between 1845 and 1851, at least 1 million people died of famine-related causes. At least 1.5 million more left Ireland as emigrants to Britain ...

Dublin, 8 February 1915 - The population of Ireland ... Famine of the 1840s. The reasons for the increase are deeply rooted in the decline in emigration. Over the past year the number of emigrants ...

A group of Irish Defence Forces veterans have set off on a 170km march along Ireland’s historic Famine Trail, raising vital ...

Limerick TD and Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan announced that the 2025 National Famine Commemoration would ...

This famine killed an estimated one million ... leaving your own country to live in a different country. Many emigrants left Ireland in 1847. Those that were able to leave had very little to ...

The National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park in Co. Roscommon is set to host the 2025 Famine Summer School from May 29 to ...

The new National Famine Way Roadshow which goes on tour during May and June will visit Trim on 22nd May.

The National Famine Way roadshow will call to seven locations along the route of the long distance trail this month and into ...

In the spring of 1847, during the height of the Great Famine, 1,490 Irish men ... a slang term used for the vessels that carried Irish emigrants to North America, as many died along the way.