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 ...

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the US. We build a dataset of Irish immigrants and their sons by linking males from ...

Nativist cartoons from the 1840s and '50s often used ethnic stereotypes to depict Irish and German immigrants as national threats to the United States. Here, they are depicted as drunken election ...

The 1840s were the city's greatest decade of ... and Boston was one of the main seaports of their landing. Many Irish immigrants barely had the means to make the trip, and had no money to move ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the walk to Canossa, the birth of George Beverly Shea, and the ...

Catholic Irish immigrants began to build churches, which became the centre of Irish communities.

The first great wave of European migration to the United States before the Civil War transformed both the migrants themselves and the country they entered. The extent of this transformation has been ...

By the mid-1800s it was a thriving agricultural community. Irish immigrants, seeking relief from the potato famine, arrived here in the 1840s. They were joined by Polish, Scandinavian, and Italian ...

Gaelic Park is also home to the Chicago Famine Memorial, paying tribute to the Irish lives lost during The Great Famine of ...