The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...

The Irish have had a huge impact in the US. The month of March saw towns and cities across the country celebrate St Patrick's ...

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 ...

making the shape of an empty bowl that symbolises the hunger suffered by Irish people in the famine. A million people died in Ireland and another two million left the country when the potato crop ...