Friends of Ireland luncheon at the Capitol with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the president talked up the “unstoppable spirit of ...

Bishop John Ireland secured 369,000 acres of farmland along the expanding railroad in rural Minnesota. There, he resettled thousands of Catholic immigrants — most of them Irish. During this ...

How many realize the Irish, driven by starvation and British neglect, built America's canals, railroads ... It is the quintessential immigrant narrative, setting the template for later waves ...

“A Western railroad contractor brought a ship-load ... By 1850, 1 out of every 5 Chicagoans was an Irish immigrant. (Hulton Archive/Getty) The same year, the Tribune described Kilgubbin as ...

But still they live in fear. They are the thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants in America today. Recent estimates from the Irish government suggest that there are as many as 10,000 ...

It very warmly yet sadly bemoans the plight of the Irish immigrants who longed for home ... Many laborers came to help build the railroads and the Blackstone Canal. Skilled boat builders plied ...

President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson both spoke glowingly of immigrants on Wednesday ... Americans of Irish ...

“A Western railroad contractor brought a ship-load of them to Chicago ... Storey, had been considered a friend of Irish immigrants. Like the Times, the Irish supported the Democratic Party. But a day ...