Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one m

A study of the Irish county of Mayo, from Elizabethan times to the late nineteenth century.

Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary ey

Examines the historiography of the Irish Famine and its relevance now, in the context of the longer-term relationship between England and Ireland.

During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citi