The Newton Free Library hosted “In the Shadow of the Shamrock: Tracing Boston’s Irish History,” featuring the Irish archives ...

A Taste of Ireland” will bring Irish culture to audiences in the Rio Grande Valley at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the McAllen ...

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

On Sunday, a new commemorative marker was unveiled at the Walsh Boat Landing near the Tom Miller Dam on Lake Austin. The boat ...

Every March in Boston, thousands gather for one of the biggest St. Patrick’s Day parades in the country. The spectacle in ...

Perhaps no other food source is more closely associated with a country than potato is with Ireland. Indeed, Irish potato is a moniker often given to this important vegetable to distinguish it from ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...

Between 1820 and 1860, one in three immigrants to America were from Ireland. Following the Great Potato Famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1852, an estimated 500,000 Irish emigrated to America.

Flanagan said the Irish came to Buffalo as a result of the Great Hunger or Famine in the 1800s and first settled in the Old First Ward. Then, as the Irish community continued to grow, they moved ...

Americans once again donned their green beads and shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day, celebrating the largest Irish diaspora in the world. St. Patrick’s Day has become an opportunity for Ireland ...

Irish traditions, English meddling and a famine all have something to do with ... eastern United States in the summer of 1843, Ireland's Great Hunger Museum said. By August 1845 the blight was ...

In 2022, Kate opted for the same piece while visiting Boston – which has long been home to one of the biggest Irish communities in the US ... became a major centre of immigration during the Great ...