Nolan will discuss her findings during Crossroads: Irish American Festival ... of Irish Catholic immigrants who fled Ireland during the famine years in the mid-1800s and settled in the ...

A significant portion of Irish American identity is rooted in the historical context of exile, particularly the mass emigration during the Great Famine of 1845 and 1852 and subsequent waves of Irish ...

But still they live in fear. They are the thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants in America today. Recent estimates from the Irish government suggest that there are as many as 10,000 ...

Get whisked away to "The Most Irish Town in America ... with the sea and how Irish immigrant Daniel Ward started the mossing ...

According to the Central Park Conservancy, two-thirds of the residents were African American; many were property owners, one-third were Irish immigrants and the remainder were newcomers of German ...

She says there has been an impact on the broader Irish-American community beyond first-generation immigrants. "Some people have empathy for what other people might be going through, those who for ...

But beneath the revelry, this holiday is a reminder of something more profound: the immigrant experience. To be Irish in America is to understand what it means to leave behind everything familiar ...