The American Wake -Not all of the 214,000 Irish immigrants in 1847 made it safely to their new homes--and of those who did, ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while ...

Immigrants, including those who arrived in America in desperate poverty, from very different cultures and societies, have ...

Irish immigrants settled all across Northwest ... The Irish started to flee Ireland in droves during the Great Potato Famine in the 1840s, landing on the East Coast and later the South Side ...

The famine killed more than a million Irish people and forced about a million more to emigrate after blight devastated the potato crop ... the home of many Irish immigrants," she said.

The United States has long conceived of itself as a haven for immigrants, a place welcoming of any person, no matter their origin, to begin a new life as an American. Flying in the face of this ...

It is fitting that Samhain, now transformed into Halloween, should still be celebrated with pumpkins and ghosts in modern America, bearing echoes of harvests past and a historic reminder that the ...

Its roots can be traced back centuries but modern mayhem helped shape the celebration. It may seem like a simple question but ...

For more than 400 years, immigrants have been coming to Staten Island to seek refuge from religious or political persecution ...

By 1850, 10,000 Irish immigrants were living in Pittsburgh ... Madarasz said. The Great Potato Famine, which began in 1845 when mold caused a plant disease that spread throughout Ireland, was ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The effects of immigration, access to Adobe Premiere ... But all four of us were wondering about the Irish potato famine but wanted to know more and we don’t really get taught ...