Get every episode summarized
Each time City History: New Orleans publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
About this episode
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.
READ MORE
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
SOUNDS:
French Quarter Bourbon walk.wav by volivieri -- https://freesound.org/s/110012/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Get every episode summarized
Each time City History: New Orleans publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from City History: New Orleans
2.6: An Irish Hello
City History: New Orleans
2.5: The 1832 Cholera Pandemic
City History: New Orleans
2.4: The End of Congo Square
City History: New Orleans
2.3: How Congo Square Survived
City History: New Orleans