Pennsylvania and Ireland have had a long and rich historical association. It stretches back to the era of William Penn in the ...

Complaining to James Monroe around 1780 about what he considered to be the cause of a deterioration in American politics, the English-born Maj. Gen. Charles Lee of the Continental Army told the ...

spoke of the large and generous policy of America from the earliest times toward the Irish race. She had opened to them her wide domain. She had given them not only a home, but a country ...

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 people, were enslaved. Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies. The majority of white colonists resided in the North ...

For Irish politicians, the annual trip to America to mark St. Patrick’s Day ... 23 had Irish roots — mostly Protestant Ulster-Scots. Joe Biden, although only five-eighths Irish, positively ...

From Charles Thomson, the founding father who designed the Great Seal of the United States, to vice-president JD Vance, a self-proclaimed “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart”, Americans who trace ...

A full house raised glasses high to standout community ambassadors at the second annual Heroes of Irish America gala in Buffalo, NY last night.

Emigration has many causes, but the one that helps explain the large Irish presence in America goes back to the 1800s. At the time, many Irish were suffering persecution at the hands of the ...