When we think of the Irish emigration story we generally start with the Famine in the 1840s - but the first assisted ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...

DUBLIN -- Veteran politician Micheál Martin is set to become Ireland's prime minister for a second time on Wednesday when ...

The bleak discoveries of the Irish Famine dead give an insight into the lives of these 14 people from the mid-1800s. The analysis of the bones of Irish immigrants, from the Famine times ...

The news that the Irish Famine ship the Jeanie Johnston will sail again brings back a flood of memories. It will be made ready for the Tall Ships race in 2012 which stops in Ireland. It is ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The Great Famine, which took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, is something many of us learned about to some degree in school. It was a tale ...

Pre-Confederation British North America became home to thousands of people fleeing poverty or oppression in their homelands with hopes to build a better life. In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to ...

Dublin statues commemorating the Great Famine in which around one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland Remains washed up on a Canadian beach belonged to shipwreck victims ...

The burial service for 21 Irish people who died fleeing the famine 172 years ago took place at a beach near Quebec The remains of 21 people lost in a shipwreck while fleeing the Irish Famine have ...