[Ads-l] "No Irish need apply"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Slightly off-topic, but interesting: In 2002, a professor published an
article claiming that he could barely find any evidence for the supposed
notices reading "No Irish need apply", and that the notion that the Irish
were thus discriminated against stemmed from a sense of victimhood among
modern Irish-Americans.

A high-school student with better database-fu has no proved that, in
fact, there were many such notices. The student's article is appearing
in a major journal.

http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/high_school_student_proves_professor_wrong_when_he_denied_no_irish_need_app

Jesse Sheidlower

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