Paper Monuments Poster #025: Irish Canal Workers: Defying Odds and Defying Expectations

ID: 5232 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Paper Monuments. ~ Creator: Paper Monuments, Langston Allston, Artist, Laura Kelley, Storyteller ~ Date: 2019

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Irish Canal Workers: Defying Odds and Defying Expectations

By Paper Monuments, Langston Allston, Artist & Laura Kelley, Storyteller

"Ten thousand Micks/They Swung their picks/To dig th’ New Canawl, But the choleray was stronger’n they/And twice it killed them awl" And with that ditty, published in the Times-Picayune of July 18, 1937, the lore was born that thousands…