Anti-Irish Poetry

Irish, Irish taking jobs

single-mothered Papist mob

how far must New York go awry

to learn your race need not apply?

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Paddy, you're going to Irish Hell

where all the other Irish dwell

ask the devil as to why:

"in Hell No Irish Need Apply.

Their blighted kind is drunk and shady

and every Ryan, Duff, and Brady

sit in the blackest depths of Hades

with nudie mags of bearded ladies."

(who are all, incidentally, Irish)

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Possible titles for anthologies of anti-Irish poetry:

Erin Go Home: An Anthology of Anti-Irish Poetry and Verse

When Irish Eyes are Smiling, Lock Up Your Daughters: Selected Anti-Irish Verse, 1860-1875

The Oxford Anthology of Anti-Irish Poetry