Irish famine

How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great Hunger.

The untold story of 50,000 Famine Irish who were deported back to Ireland by New England authorities.

A new book uses eye-witness accounts, original paintings, and vivid illustrations to tell the harrowing story of the Irish Famine.

Irish potato famine

Did your family live through the greatest single tragedy in Ireland’s history? Here’s how to uncover their story.

Unskilled workers loading and unloading a ship

"Burying The Child" by Lilian Lucy Davidson (1893-1954) There is a painting in the new Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum on the campus of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut by Lillian Lucy Davidson a 19th Century-born artist of the Irish Famine, showing a haggard man and his wife and an older woman burying a babyThe scarecrow look on the faces, the wild-eyed intensity the hopeless posture of the three and the little brown bundle of the dead baby form a perfectly compelling…

THE REMAINS of three bodies were found washed up on a Canadian beach back in 2011, and on the sam...