{"id":248,"date":"2015-04-23T19:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/?p=248"},"modified":"2017-01-18T14:16:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T14:16:20","slug":"history-alumnus-now-director-of-irish-railroad-workers-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2015\/04\/23\/history-alumnus-now-director-of-irish-railroad-workers-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"History Alumnus Now Director of Irish Railroad Workers Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Luke F. McCusker, UB History grad of 2011, is now Managing Director of the Irish Railroad Workers Museum<\/a> in Baltimore.\u00a0 The\u00a0museum is situated\u00a0within a group of 5 alley houses where the Irish immigrants who worked for the adjoining B&O Railroad lived. Two of the houses, 918 and 920 Lemmon St., are the museum.\u00a0 A significant Irish presence established itself in Southwest Baltimore during and following\u00a0the\u00a0Irish\u00a0Potato Famine\u00a0of the 1840s.<\/p>\n

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Under the direction of the museum’s board of directors, McCusker interprets an Irish immigrant home of the 1870s, and develops the family’s story for presentation to visitors.\u00a0 He says that the history major helped him develop critical thinking and “a heart for research and the ability to communicate my findings” clearly and concisely.\u00a0 When asked what advice he has for new history graduates, McCusker says that becoming “as comfortable with technology as you can” will give you an edge.\u00a0\u00a0The UB\u00a0history faculty agrees that public history has become closely linked to digital history.<\/p>\n

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Emigrants Leave Ireland<\/i>, engraving by Henry Doyle (1827\u20131893), from Mary Frances Cusack’s Illustrated History of Ireland<\/i>, 1868.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr. Luke F. McCusker, UB History grad of 2011, is now Managing Director of the Irish Railroad Workers Museum in Baltimore.\u00a0 The\u00a0museum is situated\u00a0within a group of 5 alley houses where the Irish immigrants who worked for the adjoining B&O Railroad lived. Two of the houses, 918 and 920 Lemmon St., are the museum.\u00a0 A … Continue reading History Alumnus Now Director of Irish Railroad Workers Museum<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}