His was a detestable, but necessary practice in Famine Ireland, which earned him and his colleagues the sobriquet 'gombeen man'. In the early 1840s, as conditions worsened and the potato crop ...

However, most of the Irish came to America in the 1840s after the potato famine. The greatest influx of European immigrants to the United States occurred between the 1840s and the 1920s.

A million people are said to have died of hunger in Ireland in the late 1840s, on the doorstep of the world's richest nation. Ideology helped the ruling class avoid grappling with the problem of ...

Mary McAleese, eighth president of Ireland and the first serving one to visit Portland, took shelter Saturday between the living and the dead. As pelting sleet drove the dedication of the Oregon ...

When famine descended on Ireland in the 1840s, North America beckoned. Another continent — one not gripped by a potato blight — was just a shallow ocean away. But Irish without means who ...