Oh, yes, and they were here legally. I have census report sheets with my ancestors’ names on them. The box for when did you apply for citizenship is not a yes or effing no it is when, and the date is filled in.
And, as Dennis Rodman would so eloquently say, guess what, guess what, in the Irish parades here in the States, the American flag is displayed, prominently, and most often, as is protocol, ABOVE the Irish flag.
And the Irish didn’t push their language on the Americans.
This is well known.
Somewhere, Bugs Bunny is chomping on a carrot, saying, “what a maroon!”
As far as I’m concerned, Biden just directly insulted my mother, a legal Irish immigrant (from Dublin, back in the 60s).
You’ve got me wondering what the USA would look like if the Irish language was pushed on the USA back in the 1800s; that would be bizarre, seeing bilingual road signs saying “Nua Eaḃroc / New York” for example . . . and you reminded me of when I first read about Benjamin Franklin once thinking that German would overtake English as the USA’s chief language, once going so far as to print a German-language newspaper called the Philadelphische Zeitung . . .