The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...
In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...
The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...
By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...
But it is the mischievousness of the Irish spirit and wit — the “hard-boiled, darkly humorous, racetrack-bitten” language of the Irish — that has really benefited America. Irish spirit and wit were ...
The enthusiastically received Irish-language film shows how film can cut through the noise of history, politics and culture ...
Specifically, I want to talk about the famine ... it's become the soundtrack for Irish people sharing experiences reckoning with British colonialism, from mockery of their Irish names to ...
Five new stops will be added to the trail this summer. The post A guide to Boston’s Irish Heritage Trail appeared first on ...