What happened when Éamon de Valera toured America during the start of the War of Independence

The Distress Papers: a letter from Trevelyan

The Distress Papers in the National Archives of Ireland give us a glimpse of the people and stories behind the grim statistics. In this series, ...

History • 31 Jul

The Distress Papers: mapping a Famine road

The Distress Papers in the National Archives of Ireland give us a glimpse of the people and stories behind the grim statistics. In this series, ...

History • 20 May

The Distress Papers: a priest's anguished plea

The Distress Papers in the National Archives of Ireland give us a glimpse of the people and stories behind the grim statistics. In this series, ...

History • 14 May

The Famine Distress Papers: the tenants of Athenry

The Distress Papers in the National Archives of Ireland give us a glimpse of the people and stories behind the grim statistics. In this series, ...

History • 06 May

About the Great Irish Famine Project

History • 29 Nov 20

A detail from Daniel Macdonald's The Discovery of the Potato Blight

How Victorian artists depicted the Famine

How was the famine portrayed in art in the 19th century by both Irish and international artists? Emily Mark-Fitzgerald tells how the Famine was depicted ...

Famine Ireland • 29 Nov 20

The blight spreading from continental Europe to Ireland

How the blight spread: an interactive map

It was the potato disease that devastated Ireland. But how did it get here? This interactive map shows how the blight spread.

Famine Ireland • 25 Nov 20

How the Irish Famine changed New York City forever

Thanks to emigration triggered by the Famine, people born in Ireland comprised almost one third of the total population of New York by 1855. The ...

History • 24 Mar

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