The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...

According to the 2023 U.S. Census, more than 30 million people, or about 9% of Americans, claim Irish ancestry, with over 117,000 Americans reporting Ireland as their birthplace.

POTTSVILLE — Given the oppressive conditions under which they lived and worked, it’s hard to imagine how 19th Century Irish immigrants had time to volunteer as firefighters. Yet they did ...

In all, by 1875 some 6 million Irish settled in the U.S. An estimated 500,000 people emigrated from Ireland to America after the potato famine of 1845.