In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...
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 Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...
he was born in the fifth century as Maewyn Succat persuaded the Catholic Church to make March 17 a feast day a group of men ...
The new park is north of the historic borders of Swampoodle, a hardscrabble neighborhood bisected by Potomac tributary Tiber ...
A Celtic Cross at City Hall and a Blackstone Canal Builders sculpture are among the new sites on the expanded trail.