To the Editor:
Jim Eller’s SpeakEasy column, “We Shall Overcome Racism Someday” (9/2), led me to look at my Irish history books.
In the 1600s, Ireland was not a free country. Penal laws were so severe (preventing Catholic worship and education, in addition to not owning property) that the Irish were virtually slaves in their own country. At that time people may have fled to America. In 1845 and for three years following, the Irish people suffered the famine.
September 16, 2020
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