Gabriel Doherty offers a personal reflection on the commemorative events marking the centenary of O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral

Schools across Ireland will fall silent today in a poignant tribute to those who died during the Famine.

The Government today called for the catastrophic events of the Great Famine to be properly remembered as a series of engagements got under way in Canada to mark the disaster.

A TOWN decimated by the Great Famine will host the State’s first public national Famine commemoration event next week.