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Twelfth Ward
Leaving Ireland
From Kings County to the Twelfth Ward
Birr, Kings County
Gallen, Kings County
Moystown, Kings County
Kildorrery, Co. Cork
Macroom, Co. Cork
Emigration aboard the Henry Clay, 1845-1853
Emigrating on the Constantine
From Liverpool on the Cambridge
Who lived in the Twelfth Ward in the 1850s?
The Twelfth Ward Irish Elite and Their Servants
Francis Lawler, Building in the Twelfth Ward
Market Gardens in the Twelfth Ward
Tillers of the Soil
Education in the Twelfth Ward
Carmansville
The New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
The McAvoys: a Prosperous Family
Margaret Reddan
Reverend Arthur J. Donnelly
Frs. Delahunty & Farrelly
Twelfth Ward Stories
MID-EAST SIDE
Who lived in New York City’s 18th and 21st Wards in the 1850s?
Kerry in New York
Castlegregory and Vicinity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
From Castlegregory to the Gas House District
New York’s Gas House District
Famous Sons of the Gas House District
Second Avenue & 22nd Street
Henry F. O’Brien: The Colonel Murdered by the Mob
The Demilt Dispensary
The O’Donnell Foundry
Tenement House Wholesale Massacre
East Side Stories
Mott Street
EISB Mott Street Dataset
On the Block: 1-38 Mott
37 Mott Street: The Nealis Family from Co. Sligo
On the Block: 39-51 Mott
John Pentony, Public Porter No. 151
On the Block: 50-85 Mott
Germans on Mott Street
On the Block: 85-119 Mott
On the Block: 116-149 Mott
126 Mott Street: Barney Doran from Co. Tyrone
The People’s Washing and Bathing House
Mott Street Stories
A Five Points Murder
Cherry Street
Who lived on Cherry Street in the 1850s?
A Seamstress at 90 Cherry
An American Haberdashery: Brooks Brothers
Driven by the Draft Riots, Looting on Cherry
238 Cherry Street
Waterfront Crime
Waterfront Reformers
Roscommon in New York
Lissonuffy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
From Lissonuffy to New York
Life at 20 Cherry Street
414 Cherry Street
Cherry Street Stories
Croton Flour Mills
“Blind” Murphy, the Croesus of the Fourth Ward
Laboratory for Affordable Housing
Mulberry Street
Who lived on Mulberry Street in the 1850s?
A Boarding House at 38 Mulberry Street
The Boardinghouse Scam, 1848
A Tragedy at No. 88 Mulberry Street
Donegal in New York
19th Century Killybegs, Co. Donegal
From Killybegs to Mulberry Street
A Community of Pedlars
Mulberry Street Stories
St. Patrick’s
Clergy
Diocesan Chancery Office, 266 Mulberry Street
St. Patrick’s Crypt and Burial Ground
CHARLES O’CONOR
African Americans
Sing Sing Prison 1870
Profile of Irish Prisoners
Tattooed Irish Prisoners 1870
Murder on the Rocks
The Judges
Ward’s Island
Emigrant Ships
The Albert Gallatin
The Lady Franklin
DeWitt Clinton
The New World
Taspcott’s
The Emerald Isle, Captain Cornish, Master
The William Tapscott
Commissioners of Emigration
Immigrants and Disease
Who worked on Ward’s Island in the 1850s?
Blacksmiths
Ferrymen
George Ford, M.D.
Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D.
Nurses
Where were they from in Ireland?
Ward’s Island Stories
Prince Street
Who lived on Prince Street in the 1850s?
Prince Street Savings at the EISB
Of Wakes and Westmeath, 11 Prince Street
Connacht Clothiers, 19 Prince Street
Connacht Boarding House, 22 Prince Street
32 Prince Street, Catholic Asylum for Girls
42 Prince Street, Hibernian Hall
Prince Street Stories
Broome Street
Who Lived on Broome Street in the 1850s?
Broome Street Stories
The Truth Teller
Where were they from in Ireland?
Irish Women Migrants
Brooklyn’s Irishtown
Who lived in Irishtown in the 1850s?
County Mayo
County Monaghan
Ann Smith from Glasmullagh
The Maxwells from Carrickmacross
Adirondack
Patrick Shanahan from Co. Limerick
Eneas J. Cannon from Co. Donegal
From Ramelton to Irishtown
Bookstores and Bookselling in Brooklyn
Roscius
Edward Sullivan from Front Street
13 Hudson Avenue, The Shakespeare Hotel
45 Hudson Avenue, Then & Now
Lemuel Coffin
67 Hudson Avenue, Then & Now
77 Hudson Avenue, Then and Now
81 Hudson Avenue
185 York Street
The Brooklyn Navy Yard
Hugh McLaughlin
The Phoenix Oil and Candle Company
Liquor Dealers: Formal and Informal Economies
Poitín (& Irishtown) Inspired Music
The Glass Works of Brooklyn
John G. and Henry C. Murphy
St. Ann’s and Rev. Gleason
Commodore Barry Park
The Phoenix Oil and Candle Company