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

Regional famines continued for nearly four more years. For many descendants of Irish emigrants, the Great Famine is the anchor for a common – if often distant and attenuated – identity ...

Dozens gathered at Penn's Landing on Monday on St. Patrick's Day to honor Irish immigrants who escaped to America following ...

This famine killed an estimated one million ... leaving your own country to live in a different country. Many emigrants left Ireland in 1847. Those that were able to leave had very little to ...

will look at the familiar tale of Irish triumph, as those escaping the famine arrived in Canadian towns and cities, sick, hungry, and unwanted, but rose up to play a prominent part in Canadian ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

Did you know there is actually a Gaeltacht outside of Ireland? Gaeltacht an Oileáin Úir, or the North American Gaeltacht, was ...