From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed ... 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 ...

TRENTON, NJ - While few in New Jersey are celebrating Governor Phil Murphy's Irish heritage and his accomplishments to the ...

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

Given the oppressive conditions under which they lived and worked, it’s hard to imagine how 19th Century Irish immigrants had ...

Another difficulty is that the Great Hunger was not just an Irish event ... two either were consumed by the famine or joined the exodus in which, between 1845 and 1855, almost 1.5 million sailed ...

As the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, Los Patricios, a group of immigrants, took up arms for Mexico to defend their ...

Pat Uniacke is a champion hurler, not a golfer, but on Sunday he drove his construction truck up from San Bruno just to stand at an overlook of the 17th tee at San Francisco’s Lincoln Park Golf Course ...

"The word for son in Irish is 'mac'. If you talk about your own son that would be 'mo mhac' and that became 'wac' and 'wacker ...