A Co Donegal tourist attraction telling the story of the Irish Famine has been partially destroyed in a fire. The blaze was ...

To be born with red hair and green eyes is a blessing that the people of Ireland have been gifted more than any other. These ...

The Metropolitan Police has renewed an appeal for information after seven statues were daubed with graffiti during a trans rights protest in central London on Saturday. Parliament Square was ...

Police are appealing for information after seven statues - including one of suffragette Millicent Fawcett - were daubed with graffiti during a trans rights rally in London. The Metropolitan Police ...

All-Ireland crown to stay in Munster, extending the gap between provinces to its widest point yet Darragh Fitzgibbon of Cork scores his side's second goal, as Joe Caesar of Tipperary closes in ...

The team will perform in the dance drama category and tell the story of when the Choctaws collected donations to send to Ireland during the “Great Famine,” also known as the “Potato Famine.” The ...

The Irish population stood at 5.1 million on 3 April 2022 – an increase of 7.6% from Census 2016, the preliminary results from Census 2022 show. All counties show population growth since 2016.

The most famous example is the potato late blight outbreak of the 1840s, which caused harvests to collapse and led to catastrophic famines, most notably in Ireland but also in the rest of Europe.

On April 12, 1847, during the height of the Great Hunger, New England sent the USS Jamestown laden with supplies to the starving Irish. The ship was sent by The New England Relief Committee, made ...

A pair of stone mushrooms, or staddle stones Cast iron intertwined vine garden bench Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish ... When the potato crop failed ...