The Myth of the Irish -- Just Where Are Those Signs Warning "No Irish Need Apply"?

History News Network via Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 17, 2005 / March 18, 2005 | Richard Jensen

[L98Fiero]

What the heck kind of article is this? The ads did exist but NINA is a myth? Wonderful logic.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The democrats make a living out of crying wolf all the time. Jesse Jackson comes to mind.

[eddie willers]

Ted Kennedy probably remembers burning potatos too!

And swimming the Irish Channel.

Whoops...no that was the Chappaquiddick Channel.

[ohioWfan]

Didn't Cinton also remember burning churches, and Kerry remember being in Vietman one Christmas.

Yep. And algor (among other things), remembered his Mom's singing "Look for the Union Label" to him as a lullaby............except of course, that he was an adult before it was written......

Creative memories abound among leftists.

[eddie willers]

she was forced to hire black women. Who turned out to be just as good and who in the end, she loved dearly.

When I was growing up in the South, (50's / 60's) all domestic help were "colored".

They did indeed become "members of the family" and friends to all neighborhood kids. Beautiful, caring black women.

They disappeared with "Black Power".

Pity.

[madison10]

A PBS show regarding the Irish in Toledo had photos of the signs, but those were from the late 1800's & early 1900s. Kennedy, unless he really is a dinosaur, is too "young" to remember seeing them in businesses.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Jensen needs a new hobby, he's been banging this drum and revising and recycling same since at least 2002. Think he denies the holocaust as well?

[chudogg]

no major politician in America (outside a few in the deep South like Tom Watson) ever made anti-Catholicism or anti-Irish arguments part of his platform.

Ummmm. The know-nothings?

[muawiyah]

Swedes generally came as economic refugees ~ if they'd stayed in Sweden, while the several different famines raged, they'd had no work and would have starved to death poor.

No doubt 99% of the old "it was so difficult" stories arise out of the famines, which happened in the Old World, and conditions on the frontier where just about all the Swedes went to.

On the other hand, there were already people descended from some of the tonier Swedish families who date back to the early 1600s in New York.

Who hasn't thrilled, for example, to find in their ancestry this lady called Maria Von Stockholm!! Makes you a cousin to the Roosevelts, Van Burens, etc., etc., etc.

Not to discredit your GGGrandparents' stories, but they didn't face racial discrimination, nor religious discrimination. Rather, they were young, didn't speak English and were trying to pull a living out of a barren wilderness.

Praise God they succeeded.

[stocksthatgoup]

It's written on Democratic HQ's for any Real Irish Catholic who might be nominated for the Supreme Court.

[secret garden]

Some of the signs weren't that old. My grandfather told me he saw several that read "Sailors and Irish - Keep Off The Grass". That was in the late 20s-early 30s.

[kellynla]

More revisionism by Jensen. Jensen must have gone to public schools.

Any Irish-American whose parents came over during the Irish Genocide will be able to confirm the prejudice against Irish-Catholics in America. Yes genocide, there was no famine. There was plenty of food, it was just shipped to England. And anyone who denies it is either a bald faced liar or dumb as dirt. PERIOD!

[durasell]

If their parents came over during the potato famine (1845 to 1850) they're really old...

[D-fendr]

Catholics (Irish or not) were prohibited from teaching in public schools in at least one city in Texas until sometime in the 1950s.

[Saigon68]

Jensen needs a new hobby

He could collect little toy dogs like the ones from your collection....

[syriacus]

Sounds like the phrase "No Irish Need Apply" was in Newspaper "help wanted" ads

"No Irish Need Apply." This article appeared in The Pilot on April 30, 1864.

[xkaydet65]

Discrimination takes many forms. Read up on the NY Orpan Society and the Orphan Trains that began in the late 1840s.Many of those placed on the trains were Irish and not all of them were orphans.

The Irish Catholics were also victims of violence in the form of Church burnings. In 1847 threats were made against Fordham College. Its new Jesuit president contacted the governor of NY State for protection by the militia. The governor refused, but sent twelve muskets with powder for the school to use in defense. One of these muskets is still found in the office of the university president as a reminder of days when being Irish and Catholic were less acceptable than they are today.

[syriacus]

[kellynla]

If you didn't already know that the "famine" was British BS. There is an abundance of data available from books, people whose grandparents went to America and elsewhere or are still in Ireland and since you're sitting in front of your 'puter there is an abundance of data that documents that THERE WAS NO FAMINE IN IRELAND, just input "Irish Genocide Holocaust" in google and you'll have enough reading to keep you busy for a reeeeeely long time...

[GVnana]

A popular song creates an urban legend!