Further north in Manhattan, in the mid-19th century, was Seneca Village, another community of Black ... Irish — went on a three-day rampage. The violence perpetrated by working-class white ...

Every time I broach the subject of slavery, for example, there it is, the inevitable comment: “What about the Irish slaves ... on the capitalization of Black and “White.” ...

Folks from Central or Latin America? Not so much. But no matter. “I didn’t like the book How the Irish Became White,” Irish American pundit Joan Walsh wrote in The Nation last week ...

Founded in 1825, Seneca Village was once home to nearly 200 residents. Some villagers were German and Irish American. But most of them were Black. Nestled in a 40-acre wide strip of Central Park ...