The Irish

A View about the Irish


Catherine Marr

ETH/125 Tiffany Purifoy




















      Aiih Lassy, Paddy,   heh u drunkard get   out ta bar, come ‘ere, talk ta ya after, e’ve a

face only yer mother could love.   These are all common slang phrases spoken from the

Irish immigrants as they immigrated to the United States during the 1840’s   and

thereafter   the potato famine in Ireland.   There were   no distant Irish colonies like the

English, French, Dutch, or Spanish colonies.   There are two distant groups of

immigrants from Ireland the Scotch Irish and the Roman Catholic Irish distinguished

mainly by Northern and Southern Ireland and by Protestant and Roman Catholic

background.   The Irish immigrants faced quite a bit of prejudice, segregation, and

racism.   For the majority of the early immigrants it was an immigration of necessity or

ace total devastation and parish.

    Illustration 1:   This illustration is done by the London News in 1843 after the Potato

Famine in Ireland.   It... [continues]

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