KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It's St. Patrick's Day! A day when everyone wears green, throws big parades and celebrates everything Irish. But did you know that Knoxville has a pretty rich Irish history?

Pop-Pop was the most religious person in my immediate family; most of us were culturally Jewish, and I was still years away from learning about my biological family's Irish heritage. Alas ...

Kilgubbin won’t be found on modern-day maps of Chicago, but there once was a place known by that name — a settlement of Irish immigrants on the city’s North Side. In the 1850s and 1860s ...

My own first impressions were interesting because ... As a result, I didn’t get to meet a lot of Irish people. I only really got the experience of the Irish when I started university in Trinity.

Catherine Healy, Historian-In-Residence at EPIC, commented, “The issuing of the first Irish ... our work at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum what it means to Irish people scattered across ...