In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record ...

By 1851 famine had ruined the land and the six-year-old John T. Browne went with his parents and four siblings on a coffin ship across the Atlantic Ocean. Tragically one of the Browne children ...

From Cork, after a day of heavy driving, it was time to stop at the town of Listowel. A bustling market-town of 4,000, ...

The death has taken place of New York and Kerry's Gerry O'Shea, Irish Echo columnist and tireless advocate for the ...

Our Irish experience of ‘coffin ships’ in the years of the Great Famine is being gruesomely re-enacted off the shores of Italy. In his talk at Knock Novena last week, Peter Sutherland, the former ...

CAIRO — Famine has been mostly averted in Gaza as a surge of aid enters the territory during a fragile ceasefire, the United Nations humanitarian chief said Sunday. But he warned the threat ...

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 ...

The Trump administration has deactivated the Famine Early Warning System Network after the State Department issued a “stop-work” order on all U.S. foreign assistance, with exceptions for some ...