In one of the largest genetic studies of its kind, they have traced the origins of the potato blight to the Andes. The ...

Both the right and left in America celebrate the tradition of welcoming immigrants who wish to assimilate and become productive members of the American nation. But America has another great, if ...

Staten Island’s largest public event returns as borough residents don green and line Forest Avenue to celebrate Irish heritage. More than 80 groups are expected to march. The reviewing stand will be ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland ... Year after year, the potato crop failed in Ireland. Unable to pay the rent, families were ...

House District 10 Representative Junie Joseph on the state of the nation, inclusivity and how America can restore its falling star.

Only 30,000 of these were returning Irish citizens ... fleeing the Emerald Isle came from the Great Famine of 1845-52 - where the failure of the potato crop left families destitute and starving.

Immigration was once the purview of the states. As early as the mid-1800s, Massachusetts used taxpayer money to deport Irish immigrants who sought refuge from the potato famine. In contemporary ...

Immigration was once the purview of the states. As early as the mid-1800s, Massachusetts used taxpayer money to deport Irish immigrants who sought refuge from the potato famine, according to an ...