Feb. 23—GREENSBURG — "Bound for Passage: The Story of an Indentured Servant" is coming to the Greensburg/Decatur County Public Library at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12. A Living History program, it ...

A team of scientists in Massachusetts has examined the timbers of a famous shipwreck in an attempt to prove that the wood belonged to a 17th-century vessel that brought Irish indentured servants to ...

PITTSFIELD — Councilor Earl Persip III has condemned Councilor Chris Connell for sharing a Facebook post of a widely circulated article that falsely claims that Irish indentured servants were enslaved ...

Plymouth’s Pilgrim Hall Museum took part in a new scientific investigation of timbers from a shipwreck known as the “Sparrow-Hawk” to help prove they belonged to a small 17th-century ship that crossed ...

An unlikely bond between an Irish indentured servant and an enslaved plantation worker is the subject of Lindy Keane Carter's latest novel, The Rice Birds, which has been described as an "atmospheric" ...

DUBLIN (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Irish people were not transported to the Americas as slaves, despite nearly decade-old claims circulating anew online in the run-up to St. Patrick's Day. The ...

A recent Digital Voices comment indicated that the Irish were sold as slaves long before Africans. If the writer meant in the Americas, that would be a false history decried by Irish and other ...