It was primarily dug by Irish immigrants escaping the potato famine. Many died from accidents and disease, especially yellow fever. Some are said to be buried in the canal itself.

More than 90 Irish immigrants perished. Today, there is a memorial to the lost at one of Cohasset’s cemeteries and the story of the Brig St. John is told through an exhibit at the Maritime Museum.

BUTTE, Mont. – The city of Butte remains a significant destination for Irish immigrants, continuing a rich tradition that began over a century ago.

By 1850, 1 out of every 5 Chicagoans was an Irish immigrant. Kilgubbin’s original inhabitants came from Kilgobbin in Ireland’s County Cork, where the nobility evicted them and shipped them to ...

And when the Great Famine devastated Ireland in the 1840s, Chicago was a destination for thousands of Irish people fleeing starvation. By 1850, 1 out of every 5 Chicagoans was an Irish immigrant.

They run businesses. They tend bars. They pay taxes. But still they live in fear. There are thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants in America today, and some of them shared their stories.

Boston’s deep Irish immigrant history and local laws make it a haven, even under Trump’s deportation policies ...

Among Irish immigrants, many of whom came off the ships in desperate straits, Varela was known as a tireless advocate and defender. The immigrants came to love him deeply. Over time, stories of his ...

There were an estimated 37,382 Irish immigrants who lived here in 1870, mostly in Albany, where they represented about half of the city's population of 69,422 that year.

The Connecticut River Valley saw a large number of Irish immigrants in the wake of the Great Famine, and many settled in Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, the upcoming industrial center upriver from ...

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

This 1850 illustration depicts Irish emigrants sailing to the US on an overcrowded ship during the potato famine.