Word: anti-irish
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...Irish continued to march, but this time to show their joy at gaining some measure of acceptance in their adopted land.As time passed, the oppression and persecution of the Irish began, for most, to dissolve. An Irish Catholic could become a mayor, a governor, or a congressman, and in 1960 a man named Kennedy even became the President of the United States. As the Irish began to flee their urban strongholds in places like the South Bronx, Hell’s Kitchen, and South Boston, the vital need for unity—the force that had driven the Irish...
...attorney for President Clinton): "I would like to have defended the Molly Maguires against the coal-company lawyers who prosecuted the Irish-Catholic immigrant miners charged with murder. Pennsylvania provided the courtroom and the hangmen. All else was done by private persons in the pay of coal-mine owners. Anti-Irish Catholic feeling was persuasive; due process was ignored...
Estrada said that anti-immigrant sentiment hashistorical roots. He cited the anti-Germanattitudes of Benjamin Franklin and ThomasJefferson and the anti-Irish "Know-Nothing"political party of the late 19th century. "There'salways been this ambivalence," he said
...shouldn't persons on our campuses go to great lengths to avoid the tag "racist"? Or the tags "homophobic," "sexist," "anti-Asian," etc.? Just like I'd expect them to go to great lengths to avoid the tag "anti-Catholic," "anti-Irish," "anti-Italian" and "anti-Semitic." What is wrong with that...
They need not have worried--the Irish remained peaceful, and unlike other cities, there were no violent anti-Irish demonstrations. The groups appeared to cooperate--the old-timers provided schools and charity and the Irish supported the city's growing industry...