The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

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 ...

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 ...

We must learn from the Irish that neither overconfidence nor overreaction is a good idea – that the only way to successfully ...

In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...

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 ...

Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages; Bridge Books wins; Franco-Irish Literary Festival; George Moore conference; ...

Here are some Irish lessons on how we can restore a healthy sense of humor: First, we must laugh at ourselves. The Irish love self-deprecating humor because it’s disarming and likable, as shown in ...