Irish and Irish Americans Cont February 12 2014 Lifestyle Labor Urban Lifestyle person per room o Men docks construction textile mills factories o Women domestic servants tenement houses more than 1 Regardless of Race or Ethnicity people in cities surrounded by sex drugs violence Pub culture hearty filling drink before and after work socialization Bare knuckle boxing Irish men boxed for money Tom Cruise did it in the movie example Brothels o Prostitution Urban Politics Political machine Because Irish were oppressed by English Americans immigrant leaders took control of local politics Shaped government programs to benefit the poor and new arrivals o Ex Tammany Hall Political Boss Leader who wanted to represent the underdog Help the poor new arrivals o Ex Boss Tweed Stereotypes 1 Catholic Brainwashed by the Papacy Transubstantiation practice of communion the belief of ingesting the body and blood of Jesus Christ 2 Race Blood drinkers Baby killers Vampires Ape like Black Irish South o Missing link between the ape and the human o Irish in the North were equivalent to the Blacks in the
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