The so-called "Edinburgh Potato" mixes domestic and wild Mexican breeds. Blight - Phytophthora infestans - led to the Irish famine, leaving thousands dead from starvation in the 1840s. There are ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The Great Famine, which took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, is something many of us learned about to some degree in school. It was a tale ...

Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history ... Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine, which was caused by a potato blight, lasted between 1845 and 1849, decimating ...

The famine killed more than a million Irish people and forced about a million more to emigrate after blight devastated the potato crop. The Carricks ship was carrying 180 emigrants when it sank ...

IN a research facility in the northwest of Beijing, molecular biologist Li Jieping and his team harvest a cluster of seven ...

Celtic Exodus tells the story of two young lovers who are fighting to be together in the most perilous of times.

Padraig Kirwan and LeAnne Howe on the generosity of the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations Blighted Nation tells the story of the Great Irish Famine from the arrival of the blight to the long ...