The Irish in American have a lot to be proud of not least people like Michael Mahoney of Boston Scientific one of the honorees of Irish America magazine’s 50 Healthcare and Life Sciences awards.
Without the hundreds of thousands of Irish who found new lives in the Americas, and sent money back home, the scale of the disaster back home would have been unthinkable.
A Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer investigation finds that while US bishops promised reform, they not only failed to adequately respond to sexual misconduct but failed to oust other bishops guilty of abuse.
On October 30, 2018, the notorious and much-feared mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger was killed in prison in West Virginia. As the FBI continues to investigate his death, we look back at the violent life of the infamous murderer.
From 1845 – 51 hundreds of thousands of Irish, in desperate need of aid, landed in coffin ships on the shores of North America. Those Irish who fled the Great Hunger is still remembered today around the country.
