Please share exactly what passages in the King James Version of the Holy Bible did the Catholics find derogatory?
Between 1820 and 1860, the Irish constituted over one third of all immigrants to the United States, and two-thirds of these Irish immigrants were Catholic. This trend reached its peak in 1840, when nearly half of all immigrants to the United States originated from Ireland.[7]
During and after the Great Irish Famine (or Great Hunger, Irish: An Gorta Mór) of 1845-1849, large numbers of Irish came to North America, primarily to Canada and the United States. Many who left Ireland for America during the famine and the years immediately following died en route due to poor shipboard conditions and disease. As a result the vessels they travelled on became known as coffin ships.[6]…
Recruiting drives to enlist recent Catholic Irish emigrants as field soldiers during the Mexican-American War and later the American Civil War proved troublesome for the U.S. Army,** most often due to anti-Catholic and anti-Irish attitudes in the U.S. military, but without employment many new immigrant Catholic Irish** wound up enlisting anyway. Draft riots occurred, the best known being the New York Draft Riots resulting from conscription** ordered by President Lincoln in 1863**.[9]
…Although the Irish Catholics started very low on the social status scale,** by 1900**, they had jobs and earnings about equal on average to their neighbors
It was common for Irish people to be discriminated against in social situations.[when?] Intermarriage between Catholics and Protestants was uncommon, and strongly discouraged by both ministers and priests.
Public schools relied heavily on the King James Version of the Bible, w
ith passages considered derogatory by Catholics; an important response was the creation of a Catholic parochial school system. These schools, and numerous Catholic colleges,
allowed Irish youth to be educated without this discrimination in public school systems.
Prejudice against Irish Catholics in the US reached a peak in the mid-1850s with the Know Nothing Movement, which tried to oust Catholics from public office. Thomas Hardy and Thomas Nast published popular political cartoons of Irish drinking, fighting, ignoring their children, gambling, and crowding poorhouses.
New York Times want ad **1854–**the only New York Times ad with NINA for men.
A common example of discrimination were signs reading “
HELP WANTED - NO IRISH NEED APPLY", which were also referred to as "the NINA signs.” NINA signs were common in London in the early 1800s, and the memory of this discrimination in Britain was imported to the US. After 1860 the Irish sang songs (see illustration) about NINA signs, and these songs have had a deep impact on the Irish sense of discrimination. NINA signs existed in the US, as depicted in the New York Times ad and the lyrics of the song noted here. Some argue that this discrimination did not exist or was minimal, or that these signs were not as pervasive as many believe,[18] but, regardless of the extent of its existence or pervasiveness, these two examples show that discrimination did indeed exist. NINA signs continue to be referred to in modern times.
Irish were credited with dominating the most difficult and dangerous jobs in the East building railroads needed for oil refining and for the trans-continental railroads, but were gradually replaced as the transcontinental railroad went West where Asian American labor was cheaper and less likely to demand union representation.[19] According to Stephen Ambrose, approximately one-third of the workers died building the trenches for the tracks, often disappearing, never to be brought home.
July 1863, Nee York Draft Riots,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Draft_Riots
The New York State Militia was absent, having been sent to assist Union troops in Pennsylvania, leaving the police to deal with the riots.[15] The police superintendent, John Kennedy, came by on Monday to check on the situation. Although he was not in uniform, he was recognized by people in the mob and they attacked him. Kennedy was left nearly unconscious, having had his face bruised and cut, an injured eye, swelled lips, his hand cut with a knife, and a mass of bruises and blood all over his body.[17] In response, police drew their clubs and revolvers, and charged the crowd, but the crowd overpowered them.[8] The police forces were badly outnumbered and unable to quell the riots; however, they were able to keep the rioting out of Lower Manhattan, below Union Square.[18] Immigrants and others in the “Bloody Sixth” Ward, around the seaport, refrained from getting involved in the Draft Riots, having experienced more than enough violence in the 1830s and 1850s.[19]
Especially when you are waiting for a telephone call that’s going to let you know if you have cancer or not…
