"No Irish Need Apply"

 

                Having a heritage of both German and Scotch-Irish decent I found this weeks readings and lectures very interesting.  The struggles that my ancestors must have faced I have a hard time even imagining. Life for them was a day to day fight for survival. I was aware or some of the hardships faced by the early Irish immigrants to the United States but what really surprised me was that they were even discriminated against by there our Irish predecessors. Hence that is where we get the term Scotch Irish. As the old pioneer Scotch-Irish didn't want to be lumped together with this new round of destitute, rough, Irish they created the term to segregate themselves form each other. It is unfortunate that people can be so shortsighted about what and where they came from, so much so that they would cast off their countrymen. The Irish that came over after the potato famine were not welcomed and the old Irish and the new cast of Americans immigrants made that very clear.


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