Hanover MA might just be the most Irish town in America. (Shhh. Don't tell Scituate)
Scituate was named "the most Irish town in America." A cottage industry known as "Irish Mossing" lies behind the town's ...
Irish Echo1dOpinion
Opinion: Honoring the Legacy of Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
It has been nearly five years since Quinnipiac University closed Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum for unclear reasons. The art ...
IrishCentral1d
The heroic bishop who gave his life while tending to Irish Famine victims in Canada
The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...
The Pacific Northwest Inlander1d
It’s an epic story never to forget: The downtrodden, exploited Irish were left to die, yet some found a way to survive
In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...
‘Rot’ Review: The Blight of Empire
By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...
The Buffalo News4d
Erik Brady: Tim Bohen pulls at an emerald thread to tell tales of the Irish in Buffalo
St. Patrick's Day is a week away, which makes now a fine time to read "Emerald Thread: The Irish in Buffalo." Timothy Bohen's ...
The New Yorker4d
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...