IrishCentral Contributor Loretto Leary reflects on the inaugural Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield’s Founders’ Gala.

The museum tells the story of the Great Famine through the personal tragedies of the tenants on the Strokestown Estate and of their landlords, the once prosperous Pakenham Mahon family.

On the night of December 23rd, 1899, 65-year-old Hugh Dorian walked the streets of Derry looking for his wife, Catherine. He did not find her. Four days later, her body was taken out of the ...

the potato blight disease that spread across Europe from 1845 to 1849. In Ireland at the time, potatoes were the staple food of the poor, and in the 1840s, it is said that about 2.7 million people ...