When a devastating blight struck the potato crops, it unleashed a famine of unimaginable proportions, leaving a profound ...

Every year millions of Americans visit Ellis Island, where their ancestors may have arrived from “the old country.” But Europe has many excellent “Ellis Islands in reverse” — museums at the places ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Irish refugees and ...

Beginning in the mid-1800s, over half-a-million Netherlanders immigrated to North America. Their reasons were many: religious freedom, economic well-being, land ownership, to escape a rigid class ...

A century after the Free State’s first census, its figures still illuminate Ireland’s struggles with identity, population, ...