The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, the leading international authority on hunger crises, considers an ...

Some lesser-known biological, cultural and scientific facts about the vegetable most closely associated with this island ...

A team led by Gianpiero Cavalleri at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin pieced together the new map using the genetics of 536 Irish individuals. The work, published in Scientific Reports ...

Picture: David Creedon A memorial has been unveiled in West Cork to remember a poignant forgotten chapter of the Irish Famine story — 14 orphan girls shipped from famine-ravaged Ireland to ...

Why not us?’: Louth’s Sam Mulroy says belief was at heart of county’s march from lowest ebb to Leinster titleOpens in new window ] Every team that ends a famine faces that same dilemma.

The dependence of the working poor on the potato in pre-Famine Ireland was unmatched anywhere in the world. Many Britons regarded the potato as the source of Irish poverty, associating the food wi ...

By 25 June last year, the global hunger monitor (IPC) stated that Gaza remained at high risk of famine. Ahead of his inauguration, the then US president-elect Donald Trump applied pressure for a ...

Television news reports recently showed two different worlds at almost the same time. A $600 billion commitment to invest in the United States, $142 billion sales of arms, and a $400 million ...

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