HeyJaredCity History: New Orleans
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2.7: The Irish Potato Famine (opens the original)
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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
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