[dp0622]

Really?!?!! More info please.

didn’t know about this.

not of irish descent but interested.

[pepsi_junkie]

In New Orleans, construction of the New Basin Canal was one of those jobs. The canal, which ran from Uptown out to Lake Pontchartrain, required that miles of swampland be drained and cleared, then the canal dug. No slave owner was willing to risk his farm labor on such a project. The Irish were willing to take those jobs, however, even though thousands (estimates range from a low of 4,000 to a high of 30,000) perished from yellow fever.

NOLA History: The Irish in New Orleans

[R.I.chopper]

Really?!?!! More info please.

didn’t know about this.

not of irish descent but interested.
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I am of Irish decent from both maternal( 1800’s) and paternal ( early 1920’s)
They all worked their butts off!! Railroads, bridges, hospitals....Have you ever heard of “ Irish need not apply”? That was for safe , cushy jobs...Assimilated to the
point of my paternal Granny hated to celebrate St Patrick’s Day . “ We are in America now” she’d say in her adorable brogue...