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The British Government recognised the terrible state of affairs in Ireland and demanded that the Landlords take measures to correct the problem.

The majority of the Scots who were encouraged to travel to Ulster as part of the Ulster Plantation were Lowland Presbyterians.

Grand Street Community Arts works with teens to initiate Vacant Lot Project to transform abandoned urban property in distressed neighborhoods in Albany, New York.

Charities attempted to alleviate starving Irish tenants' and laborers' suffering during famine, but donations were insufficient.

Homeowners hear on the radio or see signs advising them to rent out their home for the super bowl for $1,000 or more a week. What a good deal. Or is it?

Charles Stewart Parnell was born in 1846, into a wealthy family in Avondale, County Wicklow. He could have settled for a comfortable existence but chose politics instead.

George Calvert becomes associated with the Virginia Company, the provisional council for the Virginia colony, the New England Company, and a plantation in Newfoundland.

From 1845 to 1849, a fungus destroyed Ireland's potato crop, with disastrous effects for Ireland's poor. How did the potato become so important for Ireland's peasants?

Examination of the Russian "Go to the People" movement, a student exodus to the peasant countryside with the goal of encouraging a revolution.

The fundamental cause of the global famine has been the restructuring of agricultural economies to shift focus from human needs to the demands of Western consumers.