Many people know about the Great Depression, or the Syrian refugee crisis, but not as many people know about the Great Chinese Famine, another tragic event in history. The famine started with Chairman ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

April 30 (UPI) --The United Nations' latest report on hunger makes for grim reading. On April 24, 2024, the international body released its annual Global Report on Food Crises, showing that 281.6 ...

When Anelise Hanson Shrout was in graduate school at New York University, she read an account about how the Choctaw Nation donated to Ireland during the Great Famine, not long after the U.S. federal ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

The Shankill Area Social History Group dedicated a stone memorial to the victims of the Great Famine, just inside the gates of the Shankill Road Graveyard. On Monday, a Great Hunger memorial was ...

Statistics show that young, single Irish women were the largest group to immigrate to the U.S. in the late 19th and early ...

Ireland’s Ambassador to Canada Eamonn McKee is following in the footsteps of Famine emigrants from Strokestown, in Roscommon, to Dublin with a group of walkers along the National Famine Way. The ...

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, ...

This country has experienced great famines at different times for the last 200 years. Different communities reacted differently to these famines depending on their severity. Communities like the Luhya ...