As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick’s Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840′s leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

Scientists at North Carolina State University have discovered that the fungus-like pathogen that caused the 1840s Irish potato famine originally came from the Andes of South America. By comparing the ...

Weymouth historian Stephen Puleo, author of "Voyage of Mercy," will talk about his book and other works from 7 to 8:30 p.m. May 10 at the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy. The book recounts ...

As we celebrate Irish culture this week on St. Patrick’s Day, we also should remember Ireland’s darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840s, leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the ...

In the late 1840s, a series of potato crop failures led to a devastating famine in Ireland. Extraordinarily, just 17 years after their own devastating "Trail of Tears," members of the Choctaw nation ...

DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - More than 300 lots of letters and reports dating from Ireland's Great Famine years will go under the hammer this week in the first auction of its kind, which has aroused much ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The devastating Irish potato famine triggered an “arms race” between plants and pathogens, ...