we should also note for what it 's worth that the family in the late 1900s began to employ more and more irish domestic servants , and these servants became for the talamasca priceless sources of information how much they contributed to our vision of the family as irish is not easy to determine the hiring of these irish workers had nothing to do with the family 's irish identity , per se it was the trend in the neighborhood of the period , and many of these irish-americans lived in the so-called irish channel or riverfront neighborhood lying between the mississippi wharves and magazine street , the southernmost boundary of the garden district some of them were live-m maids and stable boys , others came to work by the day , or only on certain occasions and as a whole , they were not as loyal to the mayfair family as the colored and black servants were , and they talked much more freely about what went on at first street than servants of past decades .