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Irish Channel Information
Irish Channel is a neighborhood located in the city of New Orleans,
Louisiana.
The neighborhood is located near the Mississippi River front around Jackson
Avenue in Uptown New Orleans. The official neighborhood designation by the City
of New Orleans Planning Commission sets the neighborhood boundaries as Magazine
Street to the River, from 1st street to Toledano Street, but other folk and
neighborhood definitions have long been used and the exact boundaries have
frequently been a matter of debate among some locals.
The mostly working class neighborhood was, as the name implies, originally
settled largely by immigrants from Ireland in the early 19th century. However
early on the area also had people of other ethnicities, including German,
Italian, and African American, living nearby each other.
Through the early 20th century much of the population worked in the port of New
Orleans before modern shipping innovations greatly reduced the need for
stevedores and similar jobs. There were also local breweries in the area.
Since about the 1960s, the neighborhood has been majority African American, with
substantial minorities of the descendants of the 19th century immigrants and
more recent Latino immigrants. Parades and parties are held on and around St.
Patrick's Day which are enjoyed by many locals whether they are of Irish
ancestry or not.
The area is known for much surviving working class and middle class 19th century
residential architecture, including many shotgun houses. The neighborhood
included the St. Thomas Development.
Built on the city's old high ground, the neighborhood was one of the few to
escape the catastrophic flooding of most of the city in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina in 2005.