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

Joy’s great-grandmother was the first of her Irish family born in Canada, with her second great-grandmother having been born ...

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

The Irish do love a good story and a good celebration. The celebration of St. Patrick’s Day has evolved from the observance ...

Among the wave of humanity that came to Canada in the 19th century were hundreds of thousands of Irish, some of whom ended up in our communities and, in so doing, helped shape them ...

Every year on March 17th, Ireland and many other countries in the world where there are Irish communities, turn green to ...

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

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

But a 2019 discovery lays out with far greater definition why the son of Irish ... in early 1847 to recruit them. While there, he realized the horrific consequences of the Famine and the fact ...

Los Angeles may not boast a highly concentrated Irish population like the East Coast or San Francisco, but don’t be discouraged when looking for an outstanding Irish pub. Southern California’s ...

In 1847, she published a poem about the famine whose voice is that of the ... was not the result of a massive failure of the Irish potato crop but rather was the result of a deliberate campaign ...