Foxy
To have an Irish name was enough to experience racism in Australia .
To be called a dog was a common occurrence and to have a fist fight on the way home from school was also common.
‘No Irish Need Apply was often seen on factory gates and adds in the papers for jobs often carried the tag “Protestants Only” which meant ‘No Irish’ in effect.

We survived and became handy with the fists, to balance things out though some of my best mates were ‘Prodos’, and were English and Scots.

Welcome to the Club!

Foxy,
Just read Stan Grants story.
I am a non indigenous person who was taken from his parents at a very early age and placed in an institution as a Ward of the State where I remained until leaving at age 15 moving interstate from WA to Sydney where I took up residence in a boarding house and effectively found my own way from there. I did have employment lined up but did not know anyone in Sydney.
I was really scratching moneywise for the first few years but the freedom I had as compared to the institutional life I came from was worth it. A cheap tram ticket was all I needed.
No comparison to the hardships others have encountered but I am a bit of a pragmatist and get on with what it is I have to deal with. Looking back can be of benefit but too much of it and you will miss the opportunities that lie ahead.
Take it easy.
SD

foxy.
re Stan Grant, I maintain that two wrongs don't make a right !

Is Mise

You know quite well that the Irish are not a race, no matter how badly they were treated, usually by fellow Caucasians.

There are only 4 races: Caucasian, Mongoloid, Negroid and Australoid. Only members of the last 3 races could be accused of racism against Irish people. I don’t think that you would have come into contact with many of those in your school days.

A course in Ethnoscience would be handy for people wanting to talk about race and racism, but I don't think it has been available since the 1980s. But if it was, it would put a stop to the ignorant drivel about race that abounds here and in the media.

ttbn,
I use the term ‘racism’ with reservations, in modern parlance the Irish are a race, however there is only one race, the Human race ,as the ones you cite can breed with each other then they are one race, although it is inadvisable for some of them to breed.