Irish immigration to America wasn't exactly on my news list. Actually, immigrating to America wasn't on any list at all. The 1980s was a somewhat contradictory time in Ireland.

When the total number of Irish-Americans not just Irish-born is added to this, the figure reaches a remarkable 4.3 million, or 13 percent of the population of America in 1890.

Ireland's economy may be emerging from recession, but a wave of emigration that began in 2008 is continuing. Echoing the last Irish slump in the 1980s, many of those moving to the US may be ...

Irish Immigration Pre-Confederation British North America became home to thousands of people fleeing poverty or oppression in their homelands with hopes to build a better life.

America’s handling of the Irish Famine migrant crisis in the 1850s is a guide for immigration today, ... Irish immigrants sailing to the U.S. during the Great Famine in 1850.

They run businesses. They tend bars. They pay taxes. But still they live in fear. There are thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants in America today, and some of them shared their stories.

Echoing the last Irish slump in the 1980s, many of those moving to the US may be becoming illegal immigrants, as Aidan Lewis reports. BBC Homepage Skip to content ...