Anti-Irish sentiment, also Hibernophobia, is bigotry against the Irish people or individuals. It can include hatred, oppression, persecution, as well as simple discrimination. Generally, it could be b
American political cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things", depicting a drunken and stereotyped Irishman sitting on a barrel of gunpowder while lighting a powder keg and swinging a bottle in the air. Nast was an anti-Catholic immigrant from Germany. Published 2 September 1871 in Harper's Weekly.
An Irishman depicted as a gorilla ("Mr. G. O'Rilla")
English atrocity propaganda depicting the behaviour of Irish Catholics during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, by George Cruikshank (1845).
Philadelphia nativist riots in July 1844
Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. A broad church priest of the Church of England, he is particularly associated with Christian socialism, Anti-C
Anti-Irish sentiment
…lowly amongst other Europeans, but still above Black people. Throughout the Early Modern period many British have wrote on their opinion on the Irish. Charles Kingsley wrote: I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw in Ireland. .. to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so…
Charles Kingsley. Photograph by Charles Watkins. Wellcome V0026646
Caricature by Adriano Cecioni published in Vanity Fair in 1872.
A statue of Charles Kingsley at Bideford, Devon (UK)