Before the Irish arrive in New Orleans, we explain why they left: religious discrimination, poverty and an apocalyptic potato famine.

In seven years, 1.5 million Irish die from starvation and disease. The British government's response is part malicious, part negligent. Two million Irish decide to go.

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The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845–1852 by Ciarán Ó Murchadha

Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan

The Irish in New Orleans, 1800–1860 by Earl F. Niehaus

The Irish in New Orleans by Laura D. Kelley

The Irish in the South, 1815–1877 by David T. Gleeson

https://64parishes.org/entry/irish-in-new-orleans

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The first Irish arrive in New Orleans. They’re the kind ofpeople who make bad posts on LinkedIn.

We revisit Alejandro O’Reilly, who put down the 1768rebellion, and Oliver Pollock, one of the most famous Irish merchants in the Spanish period.

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The Irish in New Orleans, 1800–1860 by Earl F. Niehaus

The Irish in New Orleans by Laura D. Kelley

The Irish in the South, 1815–1877 by David T. Gleeson

“Trading Spaces: Commerce, Ethnicity, and Early Irish NewOrleans” by Kristin Condotta Lee

https://64parishes.org/entry/irish-in-new-orleans

https://64parishes.org/entry/oliver-pollock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrvAfYdQZSc

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Cholera strikes New Orleans. Ten percent of the city is killed. Reverend Theodore Clapp performs a minister’s duty amidst the horror. We learn about bizarre treatments. Germ theory is not yet a thing.

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Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections, during athirty-five years' residence in New Orleans by Theodore Clapp

The Cholera Years by Charles E. Rosenberg

“Nineteenth Century Public Health in New York and NewOrleans: A Comparison” by John Duffy

“Cargo, ‘Infection,’ and the Logic of Quarantine in theNineteenth Century” by Davis S. Barnes

“Asiatic Cholera in Louisiana, 1832-1873” by Leland A.Langridge

Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues editedby Joseph P. Byrne

“Outline of the History of Malignant or Asiatic Cholera inNew Orleans, La.” by Joseph Jones

“How Yellow Fever Intensified Racial Inequality in19th-Century New Orleans” by Karin Wulf

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