By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

Ireland's rich history is often commemorated and celebrated through events, art, and education, with some residual tensions ...

Great Famine and Irish independence struggle linked by geography and historyOpens in new window ] It had a higher nutritional yield per acre than cereals and would grow where they could not.

In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...

Donations to Irish people from indigenous communities in Canada during the Great Famine - valued at around €12,000 today - ...

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 ...

A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.