President Joe Biden is spending most of his trip to Ireland this week exploring his family’s roots, from the shoemaker who sailed from Newry in 1849 in search of a better life in America to the ...

Mary is listed as having departed Ireland on October 13, 1849, to sail on the Diadem, arriving in Port Phillip, Australia, on January 10, 1850.

In 1849, during the Great Famine, Queen Victoria traveled to Ireland for an 11-day visit to Cork, Dublin, and Belfast and received a warm welcome by the Irish people.

The Society was founded in 1849 "To preserve, examine and illustrate all ancient monuments and memorials of the arts, manners and customs of the past, as connected with the antiquities, language, ...

Ireland was devastated by another cholera epidemic in 1849 and the Fishamble Street poet, James Clarence Mangan, contracted the disease in May of that year. He was brought to a temporary hospital ...

Initially, in 1849, cholera was noticed in the sea ports of Ireland, having been brought here from Britain. The trail of this epidemic can be traced back to 1845 when it broke out in Sri Lanka ...

The Irish catastrophe. The Great Famine in Ireland began as a natural catastrophe of extraordinary magnitude, but its effects were severely worsened by the actions and inactions of the Whig ...

In 1849 Fr Peter Ward, the parish priest of Partry in Co Mayo, wrote to his archbishop: "In the village of Drimcaggy four were dead together in a poor hut- brother, two sisters, and daughter.

In September 1856, The Engineer reported on one of the latest developments in mechanised farming: Fowler's steam-driven plough. Jason Ford reports John Fowler’s career as an agricultural engineer was ...