Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of nineteen to return to New York City where he was born.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

But late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Ireland's bank bailout and government spending have expanded this year's deficit to more than thirty percent of gross domestic product.

VOA: special.2010.11.26

Late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

They also were shocked by the way British forces brutally crushed a rebellion in Ireland at the time.

VOA: special.2010.10.07

That was more than ten percent of all Americans -- and more than eight times the number of people in Ireland itself.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

That was one year after the union of Ireland with England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom.

VOA: special.2011.05.09

On Wednesday, Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen announced measures to cut the biggest budget deficit in Europe.

VOA: special.2010.11.26

That disease led to starvation in Ireland from potato shortages in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Hungry men had to leave. In eighteen fifty alone, more than one hundred seventeen thousand people came to the United States from Ireland.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Ron Pinhasi of University College in Cork,Ireland, says it could have fit a man from that period.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

These were shoes worn on the Aran Islands, in the west of Ireland, until the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Recent cases included the tragic case of a fifteen-year-old girl whose family moved from Ireland.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

She was born in Ireland but Professor Gorn found that the year was eighteen thirty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

One man from Maryland says he has planned a trip to Ireland for many years.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

More recently,"Sesame Street" launched a version of the show in Northern Ireland called "Sesame Tree."

VOA: special.2009.11.27

He helped negotiate the peace agreement for Northern Ireland in nineteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

"War" dealt with conflict, especially the years of violence in Northern Ireland.

VOA: special.2009.10.19