After being put through the tragedy, Native Americans became inspired to help Ireland as deaths began to mount due to the famine. Starvation would eventually kill more than a million Irish people ...

but do I consider myself Irish American? I answered this question after I read Jay P. Dolan’s history book "The Irish Americans" (2008) during my graduate studies at the William J. Flynn Center ...

Her Irish eyes are smiling, but it’s her native tongue that has captured New Yorkers’ attention. Born and raised on a farm in County Cork, Ireland, Vivienne Sayers O’Callaghan moved to Ridgewood, ...

The irony of the situation is that St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland was once considered a solemn holy day, with no loud celebrations permitted at all ...

Despite being multiple generations removed from Ireland, many Irish Americans still identify as Irish. Diaspora is defined as the dispersion of any people from their original homeland.

During the colonial era, this shipping link imported Scots-Irish Presbyterians to fight Native Americans in Pennsylvania’s frontier. But Donegal’s rural Catholics arrived en masse to work in ...

Mr. Calloway, a professor of history and Native American studies at Dartmouth, is uniquely qualified to dissect the role of the Scotch-Irish in the white conquest of Native American land in the ...

In an area of Ireland hit hard by the Troubles, townspeople are fighting what they say is a new wave of colonialism: tree plantations.

Many Irish-American traditions ... In recent years, even the native Irish have given in and started parades, to satisfy the tourists. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.