Hidden lives of Baltimore's Irish immigrants unearthed for first time
Friday, June 24, 2011 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
An archaeological team from the University of Maryland is unearthing a unique picture of the Baltimore-area's early Irish immigrants - of city children taught to read and write at home before widespread public education and child labor laws, as well as insular rural residents who resisted assimilation for one hundred years.