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 biggest Irish boxing card in New York City history is coming to The Theater at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, March 16 ...

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 ...

Monday is St. Patrick’s Day, and the greater Olean community has several festive events in store this weekend.

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.

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 ...