In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder paints a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland.

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, so today’s column shares an inspiring story of a courageous, illiterate immigrant named Hannah Dougherty, who likely fled Ireland to escape the ...

Over two million Irish people emigrated abroad between 1845 and 1855. But did they all sail on so-called "coffin ships"? Cian T. McMahon uses the surviving statistics to find out.

A new study, released by Pew Research Center, includes an interactive map and figures that show the decline in the number of Irish immigrants to the United States from 1850 to the present day ...

An Irish immigrant from Long Island who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam is being honored today in New York City. The United States Navy has named one of its ships the USS Gallagher. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Sen. Charles Schumer says the next Navy destroyer will be named after U.S. Marine Cpl. Patrick Gallagher, an Irish immigrant from Long Island who died fighting in Vie… ...

An Irish immigrant from Long Island who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam is being honored today in New York City. The United States Navy has named one of its ships the USS Gallagher. The ...