#The city of New York vs. Homer Simpson

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Checkin' In (from The Simpsons)

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I'm checkin' in

(Checkin' checkin' in!)

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Now showing on my 90's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...The Simpsons: The City Of New York vs Homer Simpson (1997) on classic DVD 📀! #tv #television #comedy #sitcom #animation #thesimpsons #durandurantulsas3rdannual90sfest #90s #90sfest

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Since you like the simpsons, which one is your favorite episode? There are so many and I don't know which ones to watch (I'm not touching anything after season 14).

The Springfield Files is easily my all time favorite. It's like this cozy, fairly spooky little slice of the '90s and I love every single second of it.

The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, Girly Edition, Fear of Flying, Lisa's Sax, and Lisa's First Word are also great ones. Honestly, anything before season 11 is gold. And of course, any of the old Treehouse of Horror specials.

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Just in case some of you kids were wondering where Mike got the name "Grabowski":

The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson. Season 9, Episode 1. September 21st, 1997.

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Were in-coming 19th century Irish immigrants discriminated against?

Courtesy of a post titled "The Potato Famine in Ireland"

16 years ago, in the Journal of Social History, a former University of Illinois professor, Richard J. Jensen, made a provocative declaration. He wrote that the "No Irish Need Apply" (NINA) signs were non-existent. He further claimed that "newspaper ads for men with NINA were exceedingly rare...Evidence from the job market shows no significant discrimination against the Irish." However, the facts are different than what Jensen declares. As such, I strongly disagree with Jensen's claims.

Not long after Jensen's paper was published, high school student, Rebecca A. Fried of Washington D.C.'s Sidwell Friends School, directly refuted Jensen in the Journal of Social History. The abstract of her paper in that academic journal said that Jensen's claims that the "absence of evidence supporting the Irish-American community's historical memory of “no Irish need apply” [NINA] restrictions in advertisements and signs suggests that these “NINA” publications, and particularly those directed to men as opposed to female domestics, did not occur to any appreciable extent in American history." She added that evidence from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries "documenting the publication of NINA-restricted solicitations directed to men" shows that there were many NINA "advertisements and signs" with much evidence supporting the "conclusion that such publications were sometimes common in some places during the nineteenth century." Fried adds that "Jensen's thesis about the highly limited extent of NINA postings requires revision, and that the earlier view of historians generally accepting the widespread reality of the NINA phenomenon is better supported by the currently available evidence."

Her article was buttressed by the fact that NINA was prevalent as early as 1854. This meant that newcoming Irish "faced marginalization as newcomers to the United States in the 19th century," which not only reflected racial prejudices in the sense that these newcomers were seen as akin to Blacks in the South, what some called "white negroes," rightly or wrongly. Those who fled during the potato famine, left behind "oppressive British landowners" whom had caused the famine, and coming to the U.S., with feelings against them reflective of how the English had treated them.The Library of Congress described such discrimination, saying it often led to violence. They wrote that ill-will toward these immigrants was not only because of their poor living conditions and willingness to work for low wages, but anti-Catholic sentiments by Protestants. This led to organized anti-Catholic mob violence, exemplified in the burning of the "St. Mary’s Catholic Church in New York City in 1831," riots in Philadelphia in 1844, and the creation of groups "such as the nativist American Party, which fought foreign influences and promoted "traditional American ideals,"" with this political party coming to be known by the moniker "Know-Nothings" since their "standard reply to questions about their procedures and activities was, "I know nothing about it."" There are other examples of anti-Irish, anti-Catholic sentiment: the Philadelphia's Irish Riot of 1831, and anti-Irish riots in 1834, 1835, and 1836, in states such as Indiana.

This post was originally published on WordPress in June 2018.

From "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment", S8E18 of The Simpsons. They also lampooned this in an earlier season as well.

The answer to the question posed at the beginning of this article is, yes, Irish were victims of discrimination. While industrialism took hold in the 19th century, farms were abandoned and more came to the cities. Those Irish who landed in the U.S. found ripe opportunity along canals and railroads and factories, with Irish enclaves formed across the U.S., concentrated on the "Eastern seaboard in New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York." [1] John Mills and Margaret Bibby were a bit apart from that, as they were concentrated in Warren County, New York.  In the case of Margaret, she was among the minority of pre-famine immigrants who were female. Considering that the Potato Famine lasted, at most, from 1845 to 1852, Margaret Bibby, to be John Mills's wife, was also a pre-famine immigrant, as was John. As the Library of Congress noted, "pre-famine immigrants from Ireland were predominately male, while in the famine years and their aftermath, entire families left the country" while this changed with the majority of Irish immigrants being women in later years.

This topic may be addressed more in a future post.

© 2018-2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Notes

[1] Another page says that "the Irish immigrants left a rural lifestyle in a nation lacking modern industry. Many immigrants found themselves unprepared for the industrialized, urban centers in the United States. Though these immigrants were not the poorest people in Ireland (the poorest were unable to raise the required sum for steerage passage on a ship to America), by American standards, they were destitute," coupled with another saying that "Irish immigrants often entered the workforce at the bottom of the occupational ladder and took on the menial and dangerous jobs that were often avoided by other workers. Many Irish women became servants or domestic workers, while many Irish men labored in coal mines and built railroads and canals. Railroad construction was so dangerous that it was said, "[there was] an Irishman buried under every tie."" Even one page had a list of Irish sayings and their equivalent in modern American English:

Dead on = Great, perfect Get on like a house on fire = Get along well with someone Handy with his feet = Good dancer I've got a mouth on me = I'm hungry Pull your socks up = Get to work Chinwag = Chat Deadly = Cool, Great Holliers = Vacations Jammy = Lucky Perishing = Freezing Poke = Ice Cream Cone Snapper = Baby, Child

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I just watched The Simpsons 9x01 "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"

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The Simpsons Season 9 Episode 1: The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson

Written by Ian Maxtone-Graham

Storyboard by John Mathot, Christian Roman & Jeff Myers

Directed by Jim Reardon

Directing assistance by Mark Ervin

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Featuring guest Stephen Sajdak from the We Hate Movies podcast.

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Mmmm, wash down that fresh Khlav Kalash!

Item: Crab Juice

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