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

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

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 ...

The documentary film Family Album, which screened in Cape Town and Pretoria last week, tells the story of Samara Pearce and her great-grandfather, who both documented the suffering of Ukrainians.

Ireland is the clear outlier. Why? In an interview with NPR in March 2024, Fatin Al Tamimi, chair of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, offered an explanation for Ireland’s solidarity with ...

An Irish mercenary fighting for the British in 1847 abandons his post and returns home, hoping to be reunited with his family ...

Today, tens of thousands of people will study an exciting Jewish text. What is that text, and why is it so exciting? Let’s ...

(AP Photo) This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo) CAIRO (AP) — All roads around Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur are blocked and the security ...

Deirdre O’Mahony’s thought-provoking new exhibition FARMWORK continues at the Void Art Centre until Saturday week, March 8.

CAIRO — All roads around Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur are blocked and the security situation has become “unbearable,” an international aid worker told The Associated Press on ...

Famine, according to the UN’s World Food Programme ... “The sheer proximity of the violence, great difficulties in sending supplies, the impossibility to send experienced staff for adequate ...