Internal conflicts

Source: Rjrasva

  • Irish Americans to Mexican army to form Saint Patrick’s Battalion due to shared Catholicism during the Mexican -American war
  • The 1891 lynching of 11 Italian Americans in New Orleans
  • Clashes between Irish & Italian immigrants themselves
  • Shared “western” identity included the Orange riots of 1870-71 on the streets of NYC where Irish Catholics & Protestants murdered each other in dozens,
  • Fenian raids where Irish Americans launched armed raids into British Canada for Ireland,
  • desertions of??