New archaeological find gives insight into the lives of Irish immigrants in Baltimore

Fantastic! I have often thought that these early Irish immigrants created fascinating societies. I am most familiar with Boston and New Brunswick.I would disagree with the author's statement that by the end of the century, they blended in.In Boston,they displaced the earlier Yankees. In 1845, Boston had a population of 100,000, homogenious WASP's, and 37,000 Irish, mostly Catholics, arrived in one year, and continued to arrive in similar numbers.So that by the 1850s, they were the majority. They block voted,built schools,colleges churches, hospitals, took over the city government, and rarely interacted outside their own community.There are still Boston area towns that are 50% Irish.

In reading this I have found parallels to issues of 19th century Irish who moved to San Antonio, Texas as there were two settlement areas of Irish here. One was the Irish Flats area established in the late 1840's after Texas became a part of the United States and the other was around St. Patrick's Parish which was a merged German/Irish community. With Texas fast becoming a minority state, we don't see interest in the early European settlements here and there were many.