Between 2001 and 2011 music group Gráda was a highlight of the traditional Irish music scene. Now they're reuniting with a nine-date tour across New Zealand. The tour will begin in Wellington before ...

Traditional super group,Gráda, who play Barrys Public House, Grange, on November 17th, have announced the addition to their line-up of the talented vocalist Nicola Joyce from Headford, Co. Galway.

The earliest recorded famines, according to Cormac Ó Gráda in his brief but masterful book, are mentioned on Egyptian stelae from the third millennium B.C.E. In that time--and to an extent, even today ...

Ó Gráda examines in detail the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 and “Mao’s Great Famine” in China from 1958 to 1962, the worst in human history, with frequent references to other such events. His ...

Listen Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Request reprint permissions here. Nearly 3,000 years ago, according to the Old Testament, an army of Arameans, led by King Ben-hadad, besieged the ...

In what is arguably his greatest work of prose fiction, The Rings of Saturn (1998), the German writer WG Sebald chose to recount the natural, crushing devastation of the Great Storm of October 1987 in ...

List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgments -- I. The third horseman -- The ultimate check -- Time and place -- How common were famines in the past? -- Remembering famine -- II. The horrors of ...

Cormac Ó Gráda is deservedly acknowledged as one of the world’s leading scholars on the subject of famines. An economic historian by training, Ó Gráda has published numerous books on Ireland’s Great ...