HARTFORD, Conn. — Since he was a child, John Lahey had heard about the tragic Irish potato famine. But it wasn’t until he served as grand marshal of New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in ...

How was the famine portrayed in art in the 19th century by ... paintings related to the Irish Famine from the 1840s-60s ... like Punch and its many imitators, concentrated on satirical prints, ...

That the world’s largest collection of visual art and printed materials relating to the Great Famine is in storage in America is a grim story of what happens when a nation fails to take ...

An art exhibition on loan from the US about the Irish Famine has opened for the first time in Northern Ireland. The exhibition, 'Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger', will be in Londonderry ...

Footage of the ‘Famine Queen’ in Ireland in 1900, shared by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in 2020, is clearer than any other thought to be in existence.

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When food shows up on canvas, politics, sexuality and morals are often close behind. That is the lesson of “All Consuming: Art and the Essence of Food,” a new exhibition opening April 14 at ...

Fintan O’Toole on a new book by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan about the potato blight, its death toll, and the response by England.