The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

Pat Uniacke is a champion hurler, not a golfer, but on Sunday he drove his construction truck up from San Bruno just to stand at an overlook of the 17th tee at San Francisco’s Lincoln Park golf course ...

Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history, second only to the Black Death pandemic in death toll estimates - the Great Famine. Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine ...

In 1958, Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine. Sparrows were killed to protect grain, igniting a locust ...

Throughout its history, Ethiopia has experienced famine — according to one historian, at least one every decade on average between the 15th and 19th centuries. The Great Ethiopian Famine alone ...