To mark Ireland’s National Famine Commemoration Day (Sunday, May 16) watch the short documentary "Songs of the Great Hunger" followed by a panel discussion. The National Famine Museum at Strokestown ...

Already a bestselling novel "The Pawn Broker's Reward" shows its reader Ireland's Great Hunger through the lens of a single town - Macroom, County Cork. Declan O’Rourke has, up until now, been known ...

Patrick O’Donovan obviously wasn’t around in the 1840s for the great famine in Ireland. But the more the country’s minister for culture, communications and sport researches and studies the subject, ...