Crozier to present paper about ‘The Bowery Irish’

Dr. Bill Crozier, university archivist and adjunct professor of history, is presenting a paper titled “The Bowery Irish 1900-1910” at the international meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison March 30-April 2.

The thrust of the paper is a discussion of ways to include the work and lives of ordinary people into the historical record. Research in the manuscript census has revealed that there were over 400 Irish living on New York City’s lower Bowery (a famous/infamous street only a mile long). The presentation attempts to establish a demographic profile of this group and its place in the Irish diaspora.