From Ireland's Great Hunger to the brave Irish heroes of the US Civil War, Niall O'Dowd examines how Irish Famine emigrants changed the landscape of American history.

In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder paints a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland.

The Great Famine Voices 2023 season also brings together Irish emigrants, their descendants, and members of their communities in the London Irish Centre in England, the New Americans Museum in San ...

In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder uses bank records to paint a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland.

Up to 250,000 people left Ulster before 1776. The Ulster Presbyterians who went to North America in the mid-18th century were ...

Irish emigrants escaping famine, persecution, and eviction from their homes in their own country risked everything to cross the sea to America for the hope of a better life. Men, women and ...

The immersive National Famine Museum, located in Ireland's Strokestown Park House and Gardens in County Roscommon, reopened following a multimillion-dollar redevelopment. The museum, which brings ...

Like the famine Irish, they’re not the dregs of the societies they come from. They are the most ambitious people, and they’re people with some resources, typically, to get to the United States.