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How were the Irish in the US treated before the massive wave of immigration in the 1840s?
I'm aware that there was of course quite a bit of anti-Irish sentiment, and it was further extended to the fact that almost all the Irish emigrants were Catholics. Naturally, the quite fervent protestant Americans strongly disliked Catholicism and its believers, the Irish being a huge wave of them. This, tied with the fact that they would take jobs which were available, led to some serious spite for the Irish. But what of those Irish who happened to trickle in beforehand, before the famine and before the massive wave of desperate peoples?
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>>1712467
One step above niggers.
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>>1712491
Pre 1840's immigration, not post.
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>>1712576
Literally whos probably from some poor as shit island.
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>>1712467
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires
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>>1712698
this is completely irrelevant to the OP question....
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>>1712467
>But what of those Irish who happened to trickle in beforehand
are you referring to the Scots-Irish perhaps?
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They were treated as generally lower class people but weren't actually hated until they arrived in massive numbers. Similar to most immigrant groups everywhere, really.
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