Monday is Martin Luther King day. In the year of The Gathering, wouldn’t it be amazing to discover he was Irish? He just might have been, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

PHOTOGRAPHS of the first immigrant to arrive at New York’s Ellis Island have been unearthed almost 120 years after she landed in the United States from Ireland.

RESEARCHERS have reportedly discovered the true descendants of an Irish girl who was the first person to pass through New York’s historic Ellis Island immigration centre.