Before the 1840s, most Irish immigrants to America had been Protestants, many of whom had been the descendants of Scottish settlers in Ulster and would later become known as the Scots Irish.

The Buckhorn Skinners club, where muzzleloaders dressed in mountain man gear circa 1840s and shot flintlock and percussion lock muzzleloaders, was marking its 40th anniversary. “The club was ...

Rather, it is the rot before the rot – the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that, by the 1840s, had made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster if any leg of the three-legged ...

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Guests on this gem enjoy a visit to Wexford, a city founded by the Vikings, before continuing to the Dunbrody Famine Ship, an authentic reproduction of an 1840s vessel where costumed characters ...

Tubman was born into slavery in 1822, but escaped to Philadelphia from Maryland in the late 1840s; after, she made some 13 missions to rescue many further enslaved people. Speaking to Vanity Fair, Bob ...

Across the Atlantic, Irish immigrants in America, particularly after the Great Hunger of the 1840s, began to use St. Patrick's Day to assert their cultural pride and stance on independence.

Let's go, new Bulldogs! After you have been accepted to Ferris State, your next step is completing orientation. Start online, then join us for an on-campus session. Your Ferris State degree is within ...

The Carnival parent company took over a majority stake in Cunard in 1998, but the brand's history began in 1840, when a Canadian war veteran established a fleet of steam-powered ferries and, later, ...

A trip over the water gives great views of the Manama skyline and you can learn about the fort, which dates back to 1840, on the way. We think some of the best things to do in Bahrain is dive deep ...

An unfamiliar picture emerges from Sperber’s well-documented account. At points in the 1840s Marx’s political views had something in common with those of 20th-century anti-communists. In 1842 he wrote ...

At which point I had to explain gently that this was the very term republicans and much of Irish America were now using for the Great Famine of the late 1840s. So it makes excellent sense that Thomas ...