The importance of ensuring a ‘good Irish death’ in Britain

Irish in Britain group launches research report on cultural needs of the diaspora community when it comes to end of life ...
Time

Books: Ireland’s Black Death

THE GREAT HUNGER (510 pp.)—Cecil Woodham-Smith—Harper & Row ($6.95). Between the Black Death and Buchenwald, Europe saw nothing like it west of Russia. In the five years of Ireland’s Potato Famine ...
Time

IRELAND: Death of a Patriot

She was a tall, dreamy girl, a crack shot with a pistol, and she rode to hounds like a hussar. Horses were in the family, for her Irish father was hard-riding Tommy Gonne of Donnybrook, a colonel in ...
Irish Central

“Death Census”: Understanding Ireland’s Famine at the level of the rural poor

The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but ...