Given the oppressive conditions under which they lived and worked, it’s hard to imagine how 19th Century Irish immigrants had ...

He would have been forgotten but that, in 1890, he composed a lengthy account of the Famine ... of Irish land and labour within a shrinking and accelerating world”. The potato, of course ...

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

The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...

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

In all, by 1875 some 6 million Irish settled in the U.S. An estimated 500,000 people emigrated from Ireland to America after the potato famine of 1845. The migration from Ireland coincided with ...