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# famine - Friday 1 November, 2019
Commemoration of the Great Famine to take place in Arizona
Josepha Madigan said the event will recognise the ongoing role of the Irish diaspora and Irish-Americans in Arizona.
# famine - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
Ending long All-Ireland wait is the aim for Rebels this year, insists John Meyler
Cork face Waterford tomorrow night.
# famine - Thursday 13 December, 2018
Breakthrough in Yemen conflict as ceasefire to take place at key port
The announcement was made by the UN today.
# famine - Friday 28 September, 2018
'We need real help': Doctors despair as orphaned babies die in famine-struck Yemen
Over 3.5 million people may soon be added to the eight million Yemenis already facing starvation — more than half of them children.
# famine - Thursday 20 September, 2018
Famine film Black 47 has made over €1 million at the Irish box office
The film, directed by Lance Daly, came out two weeks ago.
# famine - Saturday 8 September, 2018
'I felt like there was a curse over the thing': What it was like making Ireland's first Famine feature film
The director Lance Daly and star Stephen Rea talk to us about the highs and lows of making Black ’47.
# famine - Friday 31 August, 2018
Great Famine commemoration to take place in Melbourne
Josepha Madigan said the event will give an opportunity to pay tribute to the young Irish women who travelled from workhouses here to Australia.
Hollywood rejected Irish famine film in the 90s because it was 'too heavy'
‘How are you going to lighten it? Feed them?’
# famine - Sunday 27 May, 2018
The fascinating story of the Achill Island preacher, the Famine, and the Prelate
A new book looks at this fascinating part of Irish history.
# famine - Saturday 19 May, 2018
18th century coffin carrier used in workhouses during Irish famine on display
Some workhouses cut costs by using a coffin with a hinged door so they could lifted from the grave and reused.
# famine - Friday 9 March, 2018
Varadkar to thank Choctaw Nation for support during Famine
The Taoiseach is travelling to the US next week.
# famine - Wednesday 7 March, 2018
Irish famine memorial in New York reopens to public after $5 million dollar renovation
It features stones imported from all 32 counties.
# famine - Saturday 24 February, 2018
A film about the Irish famine premiered this week and the reviews are... mixed
Lance Daly’s film has been described as a “beautifully performed Irish Western” and a “cliché-choked thriller”.
# famine - Wednesday 10 January, 2018
Double Take: The little-known Dublin plaque to an unsung hero of the Famine
Ever heard of Pawel Edmund Strzelecki?
# famine - Monday 27 November, 2017
First shipment of food aid in weeks docks at rebel controlled port in Yemen as country faces famine
The country is facing a serious famine due to an ongoing civil war.
# famine - Wednesday 15 November, 2017
17 million in Yemen need food - now hospitals and water pumps will run out of fuel in three weeks
The country is under a Saudi blockade.
# famine - Sunday 12 November, 2017
The artist who captured Ireland in the 1800s with thousands of watercolours
George Victor du Noyer travelled around Ireland drawing various features, accompanied by his spaniel Mr Buff.
# famine - Monday 9 October, 2017
Higgins compares today's refugees with those who left Ireland during the Famine
President Higgins is on the third day of his week-long State visit to Australia.
# famine - Monday 2 October, 2017
Pics: The world's largest exhibition of Famine-related art is coming to Ireland
The artworks, which are currently on display at a museum in Connecticut, will be displayed in Ireland for eight months next year.
# famine - Saturday 9 September, 2017
How a desolate patch of Ireland was used to teach people to farm during the famine
The farm taught hundreds of Irishmen to be self-sustaining during the worst of the Great Famine.
# famine - Saturday 26 August, 2017
'It would make you wonder has anything changed?': Over a century later, Ireland still can't shake its eviction past
The rent uncertainty of today is not only widespread – but goes deep through the ages of Irish history.
# famine - Thursday 10 August, 2017
At least 56 people die after human traffickers force 300 off boats and into the sea
The migrants were being smuggled from Africa to Yemen.
# famine - Tuesday 4 July, 2017
'If men are caught, they are killed. If women are caught, they are raped'
Men, women and children in South Sudan have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burnt alive.
# famine - Saturday 1 July, 2017
'Picking leaves from the trees': How locals in Yemen are surviving on the brink of famine
People have been killed by shelling on their way to collect bread, a Red Cross aid worker said.
# famine - Sunday 18 June, 2017
Choctaw Chief to visit sculpture that commemorates his nation's generosity during Irish famine
Despite living in conditions of starvation and poverty themselves, the Choctaw people sent money to Ireland in 1847.
# famine - Sunday 4 June, 2017
Famine emigration stories: Corkman who made it to US went to war in exchange for land for his family
Between 1845 and 1851 around 1.2 million people left Ireland, a new exhibition looks at some of their stories.
# famine - Saturday 6 May, 2017
FactCheck: Are there more homeless people in Ireland now than at any time since the Famine?
Ireland is in the middle of a housing crisis, but are homeless numbers the highest they’ve ever been?
# famine - Monday 20 March, 2017
Australian breweries apologise for famine-themed beer
The beer had been criticised as “disgusting and offensive” and “an absolute disgrace”.
# famine - Saturday 11 March, 2017
World faces worst humanitarian crisis since 1945 - UN official
There is a looming risk of famine in a number of countries.
# famine - Saturday 25 February, 2017
Explainer: Why tens of thousands face starvation in war-torn South Sudan
Famine was declared in the new African country on Monday, which has been embroiled in civil conflict for years.
# famine - Thursday 9 February, 2017
Study on ancestry of Irish Travellers details genetic connection to settled community
The research comes as the Irish State is expected to formally recognise Travellers as an ethnic group.
# famine - Friday 27 January, 2017
'A child under the age of 10 dying every 10 minutes' - Threat of famine in Yemen
The UN has warned that famine is now a possible scenario for 2017.
# famine - Friday 30 December, 2016
Irish politicians really wanted Bob Geldof to win the Nobel Peace Prize
It didn’t happen for Bob though.
# famine - Friday 8 July, 2016
Calls for a fixed date in the year to remember Ireland's Great Famine
The current commemorations do not have a specific date.
# famine - Friday 12 February, 2016
Klopp expects Liverpool's Premier League drought to continue
The Reds boss said he is honoured to be working at Anfield but has warned that getting the club back to the top will take time.
# famine - Sunday 28 June, 2015
'The famine is over' - Twitter reacts to Westmeath's unbelievable win
“As astonishing a game as I’ve ever commentated on” and more thoughts from today’s game.
# famine - Monday 30 March, 2015
Ever heard of the Pole who helped Famine victims? He's been honoured in Dublin
Paweł Edmund Strzelecki lived in Ireland during the Great Hunger.
# famine - Monday 19 January, 2015
Opinion: Are we being overly sensitive about C4's Famine sitcom?
The Famine itself wasn’t funny, but a comedy based in that era might be.
# famine - Saturday 17 January, 2015
No joke, a group called CRAIC protested in London today against C4's Famine sitcom
Only a handful turned up outside Channel 4 mind.
# famine - Friday 2 January, 2015
Channel 4 defends Famine sitcom, says humour can come from 'terrible hardship'
Channel also says that the script is only in development and not “planned to air” as of yet.
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Poll: Should the Irish government push for an end to the US military use of Shannon Airport?
IF IN GOVERNMENT, Labour would push for an end to the use of Shannon Airport for US military planes according to party leader Brendan Howlin.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie for the general election podcast The Candidate, Howlin said the Labour Party would go head-to-head with President Donald Trump and end the use of Shannon for US military planes unless those troops were involved in UN-sanctioned military operations.
Howlin’s calls follow concerns about inspections of US aircraft that land at Shannon being raised on numerous occasions in the last Dáil.
The issue was highlighted again last week when US Vice President Mike Pence met with US troops during a stopover at Shannon Airport.
So, today we’re asking you: Should the Irish government push for an end to the US military use of Shannon Airport?
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