Just because you are no longer a practicing Catholic doesn’t mean you can’t go to church and get your throat blessed, right?

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

The statue, located outside of Faneuil Hall ... was erected to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Irish potato famine, which brought many Irish refugees to Boston between 1845 and 1849.

John Mitchel was born on November 3 1815 at Camnish, near Dungiven. He was the eldest surviving son of John Mitchel Snr, the ...

The song — which dates back to the 1800s — was even named the unofficial anthem of Dublin, where you can find a statue of Molly ... Set during the Irish Potato Famine, the song tells the ...

While much of modern Scottish history – from James VI’s Statues of Iona, through the Jacobite wars ... who came over with the potato famine and settled in the West of Scotland, and Dundee, and mining ...

He blamed the English for the Famine and came up with the incendiary (and extremely influential) formulation: ‘The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight ... erected a statue in his honour.

Its effect on the potato gives “Rot,” a vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan, its title. The blight began to infect the crop across much of ...