The History of the Irish Ghetto

In Ireland it was illegal for Catholics to hold political office. They couldn't be in any profession. The Irish and landed on the shores here were mainly illiterate James Joyce's degree Irish Yeah, yeah, and they were poor but they also were tremendously interested in literature Because they've been starved from it and poetry and in politics And they took to politics like a starving man takes the food. As you know they showed in the gangs of New York they were soon came to dominate almost all the urban centers in America as they flooded in. In Congress he passed a law making it illegal to have language requirements for new immigrants because people you know in many parts of the United States had to pass literacy tests