John Kelly’s The Graves are Walking: The History of the Great Irish Famine reflects this school of thought. But Coogan takes the argument a step further and argues that British policy, as carried out ...
Fiona Slevin grew up in Mohill and is the author of Hereditary Virtues: A History of Lough Rynn. Here she gives us a glimpse of Leitrim life after the famine 150 years ago, Ireland had emerged from ...
Five times in the course of the past year, the world’s leading hunger monitor warned that Gaza could be teetering on the precipice of famine. Each time, the watchdog stopped short of concluding ...
A declaration of famine would be a great embarrassment for Israel, which has insisted that its 15-month war in Gaza is aimed against the militant group Hamas and not against its civilian population.
A finding of famine would be a public rebuke of Israel ... and our Israeli partners to meet humanitarian needs — which are great — and relying on inaccurate data is irresponsible,” Lew ...