Padraic X. Scanlan levels familiar charges against British colonialism and capitalism in Rot: A History of the Irish Famine.

The first of this year’s Wexford earlies potato crop will be dug at the start of June, according to Teagasc tillage ...

The ever-increasing death toll and the need to provide coffins for internments created demands on the finances of the Board ...

epitomised extractive capitalism and its resistance to a safety net when the potato blight came. There was little admission of a connection between London’s thriving markets and Ireland’s ...

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

Two hundred years later, biology professor Manuel Ospina-Giraldo is still thinking about the Irish Potato Famine. Or, the ...

Critically acclaimed Irish dancing group, A Taste of Ireland, will perform at OU as a part of their U.S. tour.

The potato blight did not only affect Ireland; it caused widespread crop failures and famine in Europe, from Sweden all the way down to northern Spain, and many thousands of the poor in a number ...

A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. The premise of Rot, Padraic S. Scanlan’s comprehensive ...