[Ads-l] "No Irish need apply" (UNCLASSIFIED)

Wed Aug 5 01:13:21 UTC 2015

> On Aug 4, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Presumably an exhaustive search for the phrase "No Irish" would uncover
> additional relevant examples.
> 
> For bigoted employers in cities with large Irish populations, where many
> Irish applicants might respond to an ad, such notices would only make
> sense.  Why encourage applicants who would automatically be turned away?
> 
> JL

Or maybe potential Irish employees didn't *need* to apply, since they would be handed jobs upon request.  

LH

> 
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>> -----------------------
>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject:      Re: "No Irish need apply" (UNCLASSIFIED)
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>>> it is incredible that Jensen continues to denigrate her findings
>> 
>> I detect unwarranted assumptions behind this statement - of exactly the
>> kind I used to make before I was wised up.
>> 
>> JL
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
>> william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
>> 
>>> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>>> -----------------------
>>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>> Poster:       "Mullins, Bill CIV (US)" <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL
>>> 
>>> Subject:      Re: "No Irish need apply" (UNCLASSIFIED)
>>> 
>>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
>>> 
>>> I contacted Ms. Fried and she sent me a link to an accessible copy of her
>>> a=
>>> rticle.  It is very nicely done, and it is incredible that Jensen
>>> continues=
>>> to denigrate her findings:
>>> 
>>> 
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_local_education_this-2D14-2Dyear-2Dold-2Dsidwell-2Dfrie-3D&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=zj-QUrvffJaF3aSFhMirXYkq-aalWQuRuQ9dxjdEpFQ&s=z5RkCmII8yaseBBCsmX2y2bqnV17wYFZvF2LZdfai6c&e= 
>>> 
>>> 
>> nds-student-outwitted-a-college-historian/2015/08/03/fcd33356-3a1b-11e5-9c2=
>>> d-ed991d848c48_story.html
>>> 
>>> I've asked her for permission to share the link to the article on this
>>> list=
>>> , and invited her to register and participate.
>>> 
>>> When I was fourteen, I spent my time reading comic books and watching the
>>> "=
>>> Six Million Dollar Man".  She is amazing.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
>>> Behalf =
>>> Of MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM
>>>> AMRDEC (US)
>>>> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 9:07 AM
>>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>>> Subject: Re: "No Irish need apply" (UNCLASSIFIED)
>>>> =20
>>>> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>>> -----------------=
>>> ------
>>>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>>> Poster:       "Mullins, Bill CIV (US)" <
>> william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL
>>>> 
>>>> Subject:      Re: "No Irish need apply" (UNCLASSIFIED)
>>>> 
>>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------=
>>> ------
>>>> =20
>>>> CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
>>>> =20
>>>> Jensen's original article is available here:
>>>> =20
>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tigger.uic.edu_-7Erjensen_no-2Dirish.htm&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=zj-QUrvffJaF3aSFhMirXYkq-aalWQuRuQ9dxjdEpFQ&s=GxPzDmXxThElgwOZ-N0rt7WV4jFiy-CJZN1QbvQrIH8&e= 
>>>> =20
>>>> I can't find Fried's rebuttal article, except behind a (rather
>>> expensive)=
>>> p=3D
>>>> aywall:
>>>> 
>>> 
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__intl-2Djsh.oxfordjournals.org_content_early_2015_07_03_jsh.shv066.fu-3D&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=zj-QUrvffJaF3aSFhMirXYkq-aalWQuRuQ9dxjdEpFQ&s=4svZhV7ynjYiblyQb2kuaTSekS2z0ffN6H9ldZ8fkkk&e= 
>>> ll
>>>> =20
>>>> (and, btw, Fried's title, "No Irish Need Deny", is great)
>>>> =20
>>>> Does anyone have contact info for Fried that I can ask her to send a
>>> copy=
>>> ?
>>>> =20
>>>> =20
>>>> =20
>>>> =20
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
>>> Behal=
>>> f =3D
>>>> Of Jesse Sheidlower
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 12:20 PM
>>>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>>>> Subject: "No Irish need apply"
>>>>> =3D20
>>>>> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>>> ---------------=
>>> --=3D
>>>> ------
>>>>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>>>> Poster:       Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
>>>>> Subject:      "No Irish need apply"
>>>>> 
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
>>> --=3D
>>>> ------
>>>>> =3D20
>>>>> Slightly off-topic, but interesting: In 2002, a professor published
>> an
>>> =
>>> ar=3D
>>>> ticle claiming that he could barely find any evidence for the supposed
>>>>> notices reading "No Irish need apply", and that the notion that the
>>> Iri=
>>> sh=3D
>>>> were thus discriminated against stemmed from a sense of
>>>>> victimhood among modern Irish-Americans.
>>>>> =3D20
>>>>> A high-school student with better database-fu has no proved that, in
>>> fa=
>>> ct=3D
>>>> , there were many such notices. The student's article is appearing
>>>>> in a major journal.
>>>>> =3D20
>>>>> 
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.longislandwins.com_columns_detail_high-5Fschool-5Fstudent-5Fproves-3D&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=zj-QUrvffJaF3aSFhMirXYkq-aalWQuRuQ9dxjdEpFQ&s=AnzArq6oK7b17bpXzSZsLNMDX-yoTXl8u5w0FNsjCvU&e= 
>>> _p=3D
>>>> rofessor_wrong_when_he_denied_no_irish_need_app
>>>>> =3D20
>>>>> Jesse Sheidlower
>>>>> =3D20
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> The American Dialect Society - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=zj-QUrvffJaF3aSFhMirXYkq-aalWQuRuQ9dxjdEpFQ&s=7z-kqd5Jon0ykjP0la5cqq6kXq5MU7q--BjrEbKDiwo&e= 
>>>> CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
>>>> =20
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> The American Dialect Society - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=zj-QUrvffJaF3aSFhMirXYkq-aalWQuRuQ9dxjdEpFQ&s=7z-kqd5Jon0ykjP0la5cqq6kXq5MU7q--BjrEbKDiwo&e= 
>>> CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
>>> 
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> The American Dialect Society - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=zj-QUrvffJaF3aSFhMirXYkq-aalWQuRuQ9dxjdEpFQ&s=7z-kqd5Jon0ykjP0la5cqq6kXq5MU7q--BjrEbKDiwo&e= 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> The American Dialect Society - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=zj-QUrvffJaF3aSFhMirXYkq-aalWQuRuQ9dxjdEpFQ&s=7z-kqd5Jon0ykjP0la5cqq6kXq5MU7q--BjrEbKDiwo&e= 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=zj-QUrvffJaF3aSFhMirXYkq-aalWQuRuQ9dxjdEpFQ&s=7z-kqd5Jon0ykjP0la5cqq6kXq5MU7q--BjrEbKDiwo&e= 

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org