The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...
The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...
A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.
By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...
The enthusiastically received Irish-language film shows how film can cut through the noise of history, politics and culture ...
We must learn from the Irish that neither overconfidence nor overreaction is a good idea – that the only way to successfully ...
British policy makers could only imagine relief based on the principles of the free market. But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past. It was a complex and modern political ...
Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages; Bridge Books wins; Franco-Irish Literary Festival; George Moore conference; ...
The Boston Irish Famine Memorial, at the corner of Washington ... as well a plaque for Jeremiah O’Brien, who captured a British ship in the first naval battle of the Revolutionary War; a plaque ...
In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...
Like elsewhere in America, the Irish of Syracuse faced widespread prejudice and discrimination in the 19th century.
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