The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

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

The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...

Irish ate more pork than beef, but English demands and low prices in the U.S. played a role in creating the annual holiday ...

Catastrophic violence, economic turmoil, and political upheaval abroad driving waves of newcomers here: Immigration is ... kind of tragedy — the Irish potato famine, economic repression and ...

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.

I did cook the requisite corned beef, cabbage and potatoes, yesterday, the Holy Day, March 17. I also offered a meatless ...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. On Monday, many will pretend to be Irish, wear green and maybe find an excuse to drink green beer ...

St Patrick's Day falls on a Monday this year, which means the day caps off a stretch of celebrations with the bulk of them ...

Given the oppressive conditions under which they lived and worked, it’s hard to imagine how 19th Century Irish immigrants had time to volunteer as firefighters. Yet they did, according to firefighting ...