CHICAGO (WLS) -- When the first wave of Irish immigrants arrived in the Chicago area, the road did not rise up to meet them and the wind was not always at their back. It was survival. They came, ...

I first got to call myself Irish at 30,000 feet over the English Channel. It was the summer of 1984. On that Amsterdam to Dublin flight, my Egyptian seat mate, en route from Cairo, started to make ...

32 million US residents claim Irish descent—I am one of them, but do I consider myself Irish American? I answered this question after I read Jay P. Dolan’s history book "The Irish Americans" (2008) ...