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

Patrick escaped slavery but returned to Ireland later ... according to the Library of Congress. Irish culture and heritage experts previously have told USA TODAY the holiday was once a solemn ...

32 million US residents claim Irish descent—I am one of them ... but expresses his happiness that his brother is “out of a Land of slavery into a land of liberty and freedom” (p.

Wilson says Native American tribes in the straits practiced slavery for a variety of cultural reasons. That’s changed as ...

executive director for the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany, New York, told USA TODAY. The saint was born in Britain but was brought to Ireland as a slave at 16 years old. He escaped but ...