If you’re familiar with American history, you have to savor the irony of an Irish-American Catholic identifying with those who are “losing their country.” In the 19th century the Irish weren’t exactly “we.”

Forgive the ugly stuff, but I think it’s good to know where we’ve been sometime.

San Francisco : White & Bauer, between 1860 and 1869

Thomas Nast, 1876

Thomas Nast, 1882