The Great Irish Famine

Lessons of Giving:the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations and the Famine

They had just endured the cruelty of being forced from their lands in the Trail of Tears - and they were determined to help another nation in need. Padraig Kirwan and LeAnne Howe on the generosity of the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations

RTÉ History - The Great Irish Famine

How the Great Famine changed Ireland forever

Ireland before the Great Famine

How the blight spread: an interactive map

The truth about Trevelyan

How Victorian artists depicted the Famine

The Hunger: the making of the new documentary

Before and after the Famine: an interactive map

Hidden Ireland: The world of the cottier on the eve of the Famine

Why was the potato so important?

The other famine: Scotland and the potato blight

The panicked flood: emigration and the Great Famine

British responses to the Famine

The truth about Trevelyan

"Their own wickedness": how the British press reported the Famine

Peel's brimstone: the Temporary Relief Commission

A policy disaster: British famine relief measures

The Hunger: watch the documentary here

The impact of the Famine

Lessons of Giving:the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations and the Famine

Hidden heroes: women and the Great Famine

"Paupers and beggars' brats": Parsonstown Workhouse in the Famine

Deadly disease: how the Great Famine led to outbreaks of illness

About the Great Irish Famine Project

Blighted Nation: listen to the documentary series

The Great Irish Famine

The Lockout

Ireland and The Great War

From the RTÉ Archives: Irish memories of WW1

Gallipoli

The 1916 Rising

The 1918 General Election

The First Dáil

Soloheadbeg

De Valera in America

The Dáil Ban

Suppression of Cumann na mBan

Hunger Strikes

The Munitions Strike

The death of Terence MacSwiney

Bloody Sunday

Martial Law

The Burning of Cork

The Border

RTÉ History - The Great Irish Famine

How the Great Famine changed Ireland forever

Ireland before the Great Famine

How the blight spread: an interactive map

The truth about Trevelyan

How Victorian artists depicted the Famine

The Hunger: the making of the new documentary

Before and after the Famine: an interactive map

Hidden Ireland: The world of the cottier on the eve of the Famine

Why was the potato so important?

The other famine: Scotland and the potato blight

The panicked flood: emigration and the Great Famine

British responses to the Famine

The truth about Trevelyan

"Their own wickedness": how the British press reported the Famine

Peel's brimstone: the Temporary Relief Commission

A policy disaster: British famine relief measures

The Hunger: watch the documentary here

The impact of the Famine

Lessons of Giving:the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations and the Famine

Hidden heroes: women and the Great Famine

"Paupers and beggars' brats": Parsonstown Workhouse in the Famine

Deadly disease: how the Great Famine led to outbreaks of illness

About the Great Irish Famine Project

Blighted Nation: listen to the documentary series