How Irish?

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Photo by Chris Granger of Irish Channel neighborhood in New OrleansHistory graduate students created an online, interactive reconstruction of the Irish Channel from 1880. It marries technology and old-fashioned historical detective work to examine one of the evergreen questions about the storied New Orleans neighborhood: just how Irish was it?

Read more in How Irish from the Fall 2017 issue of La Louisiane.

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