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another myth shattered

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | other press author Saturday March 26, 2005 08:56author by mise

NINA - The myth of No Irish Need Apply

Irish Catholics in America have a vibrant memory of humiliating job discrimination, which featured omnipresent signs proclaiming "Help Wanted--No Irish Need Apply!" No one has ever seen one of these NINA signs because they were extremely rare or nonexistent.

The slogan was commonplace in upper class London by 1820; in 1862 in London there was a song, "No Irish Need Apply," purportedly by a maid looking for work. The song reached America and was modified to depict a man recently arrived in America who sees a NINA ad and confronts and beats up the culprit.


Extract here :
http://www.weblogic.no-ip.info/?q=node/282

Full Essay here:
http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm


Is this revisionism gone wild or historical fcats?

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/69121

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