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??