Catherine Corless, the historian who found the gravesite of nearly 800 babies and children beneath an Irish home for unwed ...

A team led by Gianpiero Cavalleri at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin pieced together the new map using the genetics of 536 Irish individuals. The work, published in Scientific Reports ...

To mark the 30th annual Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 23, Frank Petric, a deputy grand marshal in this year’s march, collaborated with The Tablet to create a map of the neighborhood that ...

A plaque in its firehouse honoring World War II veterans, painted by Leo Ploppert, has numerous Irish surnames like Brennan, O’Brien and McDonald. Phoenix No 2 was founded in 1885, the same year ...

Though only 1 in 9 people in the U.S. claim Irish heritage, about 61% of Americans plan to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, according to the National Retail Federation. Wearing green, hosting a ...

After the English arrived in America, more Smiths came during later periods of Irish and Scottish ... regional differences in last names that are not reflected on this map, according to ...

In 2023, Ancestry.com reviewed phone book listings nationwide to determine the most common surnames in every U.S. state. The map below shows ... the later periods of Irish and Scottish immigration.

Pontins has apologised to the Gypsy and Traveller communities after barring people with Irish surnames from its resorts. The holiday park company said its previous refusal to allow guests to stay ...

Caltra comes from Irish cealtrach ‘old burial ground ... the last being a former wetland. Surnames of long-departed families are another big category: Earley’s, Dolan’s, Nellie Cleary ...

The interactive map below shows each state’s population percentage of Irish or partially Irish residents. Of any county in the U.S., it’s Cook County, which covers Chicago and the surrounding ...