Born in County Wexford, Whelan left little mark in Ireland. “Nothing is known about the town of his birth, his family, or his early life,” according to a 1987 Georgia Historical Quarterly article by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Back in the mid-1800s, ...

Kerby Miller is the author of numerous scholarly publications on Irish history. His book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America won the Merle Curti Award Best Book in US ...

CHANNEL FIVE. THE IRISH ARRIVED WITH DREAMS IN THEIR POCKETS AND ATLANTIC WINDS AT THEIR BACKS. THROUGHOUT THIS SHOW, YOU’LL HEAR THE STORIES OF IMMIGRANTS. I CAME TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1962. I’M ...

An extract from “Irish Questions and Jewish Questions” a study of the Jews of Ireland and of their social history in Ireland. Editor's note: May marks the Jewish American Heritage Month in the United ...

An American family in possession of a valuable manuscript by a Famine-era poet have returned it to the Irish community that was once home to the writer. Born in 1757 in Woodstock, Carrigtwohill, in Co ...