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 A) Browse the web to find what the Ancient order of the Hiberians is. B) Read and sum up the following text. B) Browse the web to find other examples of Irish contribution to major American events. Irish American Heritage Month: The Irish Contribution to America’s Independence March 11, 2022 By Mike McCormack DID YOU KNOW that when America was born, the Irish were there? The Irish, both Protestant, and Catholic, were a major part of Washington’s volunteers from foot soldiers to high ranking officers. When increased Crown exploitation drove the colonists to protest, among the loudest were the Irish who had no great love for the Crown, to begin with. And there were many Irish in America’s colonies. Among them were those who fought the English theft of their Irish lands and ended up hunted men; they were followed by those Catholics and Presbyterians who fled persecution by the Church of England. Some were businessmen who had to escape the economic oppression fostered on...

 https://the-bowery-boys-new-york-city-history.simplecast.com/episodes/224-the-arrival-of-the-irish-an-immigrant-story  :  a podcast you can discover at home      A) Browse the web to discover who the Bowery Boys were. B) Comment on the following pictures. C) Browse the web to find some examples of the prejudice experienced by Irish people in the USA.   Irish Emigrants Leaving Home — The Priest’s Blessing (dated 1851) A lithograph by Maurer and Currier (of Currier and Ives) illustrating a rather stereotypical scene of Irish life. An anti-Catholic illustration from 1855. Library of Congress In 1860, fear of foreigners inspired a San Francisco cartoonist to draw this image, imagining laborers from Ireland and China (responsible for building the railroads) ‘swallowing’ up the country. A mixed Irish/Chinese caricature completes the job. Library of Congress St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, a new signpost for the a...