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 ...

President Biden made a gaffe during a speech in Ireland. AP. ... Owen Finnegan, left for New York City in 1849, but the view was obscured by clouds, according to the Times. ...

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.

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, ...

A heartbreaking Irish famine story of death and despair in a small west of Ireland village. A group of 600 Irish starving during the Great Hunger set out to Doolough, in County Mayo. to find food.

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, 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.

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.

LEAVING IRELAND Ann Moore, . . ... Grace flees Ireland in 1849 at age 20. She leaves a newborn son with her father in County Cork and takes her daughter to Liverpool, ...