Given this centuries massive migrant refugee crises around the world, it’s not hard to fathom the intense Irish immigrant bigotry of the mid-1800’s. The great Irish Potato Famine lasted nearly a decade and brought massive numbers of Irish refugees to America, Canada and England. Faced with eviction and starvation, hundreds of thousands of Irish emigrated across the Atlantic to the U.S. and Canada. To say these Irish immigrants were not welcomed by Americans is a vast understatement. They were in fact treated like unwanted criminals.
