October is National Family History Month! Below, historian Eugene O'Driscoll explores Irish America's long history with immigration in the US. If we seek to empathize with current immigrants from ...

A panel on "Irish California" will include state librarian Kevin Starr, who recently completed the sixth book in his multi-volume series on California history, and Michael Corrigan, who wrote ...

Further north in Manhattan, in the mid-19th century, was Seneca Village, another community of Black and Irish residents. Located on what is now the perimeter of Central Park from W. 82nd to W ...

Questionable sources maintain that the plight of so-called "Irish slaves" in early America was worse than that of African slaves. Historians beg to differ.

In her luminous new study "Race, Politics, and Irish America – A Gothic History", author Mary M. Burke explores centuries of competing narratives about the Irish in America.

To identify the 35 most Irish cities in America today, 24/7 Tempo reviewed a ranking created by LawnStarter, a lawn-care start-up that conducts research into city and state amenities on a regular ...

Irish in America: a Language Lost and Found Peter Quinn. In 1799, ... a solitary stroke of the spade into the fertile earth of his own family’s history, ...

The 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter has passed away age 100. He could trace his Irish ancestry all the way back to the early days of the U.S..

Employers boldly displayed "No Irish Need Apply" signs to warn would-be Irish workers off applying. The earliest documented example appeared in the New York Sun on January 15, 1842.

What it means to be Irish in America. Recently, I attended a benefit concert for the Irish Repertory Theater, celebrating 35 years of the company’s musicals—from the works of George M. Cohan and ...