When Donald Trump invoked the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members this weekend, I had ...
Donations to Irish people from indigenous communities in Canada during the Great Famine - valued at around €12,000 today - ...
Ireland's rich history is often commemorated and celebrated through events, art, and education, with some residual tensions ...
in “no other famine in the world [was] the proportion of people killed . . . as large as in the Irish famines in the 1840s.” The pathogen that caused it was a fungus-like water mold called ...
St. Patrick’s Day offers an annual reminder that, in terms of ancestry, no US state is quite as Irish as New Hampshire — not ...
The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...
Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...
Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many ...
An Taibhse comes from on-the-rise writer-director John Farrelly and is set during the tail end of the Great Famine.
In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name ...
We are hospitable and irreverent, but also cynical and parochial. When things get difficult, who do we want to be?