In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland ... crossing the Atlantic in so-called "coffin ships" during the 1840s. (As portrayed by Robert ...

Co-hosted by actor Gabriel Byrne and Riverdance star Jean Butler, the Gathering also featured a video-taped message from President Bill Clinton, in which he paid tribute to those who died during the ...

Researchers explored the harrowing stories of single pregnant Irish women who fled to America during the Famine and the years ... marry on the next available ship, leaving many women to raise ...

The blurb of The Famine Plot claims that Tim Pat Coogan is Ireland’s leading historian. This is not exactly right, but it is true that Coogan’s works sell widely and have a significant influence both ...

The source of the pathogen that caused the Irish ... The Great Famine, a time of widespread poverty and disease that lasted from 1845 to 1852. Around one million people died during this period ...

My mother, whose family came over during the Famine years, said her family hailed from Cork. But a Cork cabdriver told my husband and me with great certainty that “the Lanigans and Flanagans were from ...

AN ARCHIVE of Famine stories from a unique perspective ... Canadian Sisters of Charity who cared for the Irish famine emigrants in Montreal during the summer of 1847 and who provided homes for ...

Later, they labeled themselves Scots-Irish in a bid to distinguish themselves from the Catholics fleeing Ireland during the potato famine of the 1840s. It better served those running for the ...

These newcomers were half-starved Famine survivors who had come over on the “coffin ships.” In January of 1847 ... who becomes the first woman to work as a diver at the Navy Yard during World War II.

ADDISON, MI – Visitors can grab breakfast and lunch fare at this cafe during an upcoming popular Irish Hills event. The 15th annual Taste of the Irish Hills, hosted by the Irish Hills Regional ...

In the span of just two months, the Sudanese mother watched helplessly as severe malnutrition killed her 10-year-old daughter, Rania, and her eight-month-old son, Montasir, in the famine-stricken ...