Both Equiano and Parker Remond worked closely with Irish abolitionists. Even before Douglass arrived in Ireland in 1845, he was aware of the rich tradition of Irish men and women involved in the ...

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. Kennedy slashing 10,000 jobs in health department overhaul Big Changes Are Coming To KFC In ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...

The blight was not unique to Ireland, and devastating everywhere it struck. In the Netherlands, 71 per cent of the 1,845 potato crop was lost; in Belgium, 88 per cent. Only in Ireland, however ...

Their celebrated military service contributed to Ireland’s elevation within the United Kingdom—and to the introduction of free trade in 1845, which drew Ireland’s large-scale production of ...