In 2015 plans by Irish scriptwriter Hugh Travers to develop a comedy series commissioned by Channel 4 about Ireland’s Famine drew the ire of public opinion which led to an online petition with almost 20,000 signatures expressing outrage at its apparent trivialisation.

Donnacha O’Dennehy’s opera looks at a surprisingly neglected era, writes Alan O’Riordan.

Throughout his visit to Ireland, many females rallied to help former slave Frederick Douglass in his campaign for abolition, writes Robert Hume.

Black 47 has an Irish man wreaking havoc among those who evicted his family during the Famine, writes Esther McCarthy.

In 1849, during the Great Famine, Queen Victoria traveled to Ireland for an 11-day visit to Cork, Dublin, and Belfast and received a warm welcome by the Irish people.

Plants feed us. Without them we’re goners. Through thousands of years of genetic modification by selective breeding, humans have developed the crops that keep us alive, writes John Herlihy.

The life and writings of Asenath Nicholson, a US woman who documented the Famine, has been dramatised for Rua Breathnach’s latest play, Welcome to the Stranger, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

President Michael D Higgins called for a renewed commitment to support all vulnerable people in the world at the annual Famine Commemoration Ceremony at UCC today.

The National Famine Commemoration will take place at University College Cork today.

In just one week in February 1847, 49 residents of Cork Workhouse died of hunger and dysentery. Visitors to the city recorded their shock at the sight of the dead and dying in doorways and ‘ragged spectres’ of people begging in the streets.

Sometimes when you have to cope with the first world problems we deal with these days, you forget how lucky we are. 

It was a tale of an extremely familiar heartache that forced one oppressed nation to help another.

A new exhibition gives Irish people their first chance to see the largest collection of Famine-related art, writes Alan O’Riordan.

The UN and more than 20 humanitarian groups have condemned a blockade by the Saudi-led coalition on airports, seaports and land crossings into Yemen, saying it could bring millions of people closer to "starvation and death".

Clay from the grave of a Corkwoman who survived the Famine to become one of America’s most famous trade-union activists will be removed in a special ceremony today for transportation to her native city.

South Sudan no longer has areas in famine but almost two million people are on the brink of starvation, according to reports by the government and the United Nations.

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has made a surprise visit to Somalia for talks with the country's new president as a worsening drought threatens millions of people in the Horn of Africa nation.

This weekend, as Kilkenny and Tipperary enthralled; as our rugby team fell short again; as TV panellists at Crufts discussed joint replacement for dogs, the UN warned the world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.

United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has said the UN needs £3.5 billion by the end of next month to prevent "a catastrophe" of hunger and famine in South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen.

Famine has been declared in two counties of South Sudan, according to an announcement by the county's government and three UN agencies.