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Vignettes lightheartedly depict Irish domestic servants being pampered and coddled by their employers in efforts to keep them happy and happily employed, chiefly, by taking their minds off their domestic duties by providing pleasant distractions.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-01-17
President Roosevelt tells Professor Joseph Dunn that he made most of the changes to his article that Dunn suggested and explains his reasoning for those that he did not.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-26
After inviting Finley Peter Dunne and Margaret Ives Dunne to the White House, President Roosevelt spends the rest of his letter discussing Finley Peter Dunne’s recent article entitled the “Anglo-Saxon Triumph.” Roosevelt takes umbrage with Dunne’s belief that individuals should look down on particular Americans due to their ancestry and specifically references those of Irish and German ancestry. In a postscript, Roosevelt states the current temptation is toward Anglophobia, not Anglomania, and the easiest thing for a politician to do is find fault with England. The president prides himself in getting a greater portion of Irish and Catholic Americans to vote for him than any previous Republican candidate without any significant attack on England.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-23
H. Hunter believes The Outlook would be less critical of Harrison Gray Otis’s attitude towards labor unions if it understood the circumstances connected with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building. Hunter is a fan of several politicians, including Theodore Roosevelt, for the enemies they have made of socialists, labor unions, and “undesirable citizens.” Hunter points the finger at Catholics and the Irish as being involved with these undesirable causes as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-01
In a poem by Teresa Brayton, a narrator reminisces about Tommy Casey, a whistling Irishman, who died during the Battle of San Juan Hill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-27
President Roosevelt tries to lasso a donkey with an anthropomorphized face wearing a papal mitre. Caption: “It won’t hold, Mr. Rough-Rider! He’ll be absolved from it!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-21
Secretary of War Taft sends a memorandum to President Roosevelt, enclosing correspondences concerning Frederick Zadok Rooker, bishop of Jaro, Philippines, and John Thomas McDonough, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Taft refers to a mistake made by Rooker and says that because McDonough is an Irishman, “fighting proclivities” appeal to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-02
Print shows Chester Alan Arthur offering a “Bill Excluding Chinese for 10 Years,” in the shape of a Chinese man’s face, to a three-headed Cerberus labeled “Western Vote” with the heads labeled “Demagogue, Hoodlum, [and] Irish.” At Arthur’s feet is a basket labeled “Sops for Everybody,” and he holds a rope behind his back labeled “2nd Term Aspirations.” The Cerberus is guarding the narrow path through the forest to the White House labeled “1884,” which shines in the distance.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-05-17
James Russell Lowell, minister to England, turns his back on an Irishman who is dressed like Uncle Sam and is in the custody of the British military for anarchistic activities. Lowell holds a paper that states, “All such persons should be made to understand distinctly that they cannot be Irishmen and Americans at the same time! J. R. Lowell.” Caption: Minister Lowell–“No, sir, you are not the kind of American citizen I am sent here to protect!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-03-22
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa and Johann J. Most are shocked by sudden attempts of violence against them. At their feet are headlines from the “United Irishmen” and “Freiheit” that state “Sacrifice Women Children and Everybody – Anything to Raise Subscriptions to the Fund! O’D. Rossa” and “Dynamite Everybody Herr Most.” Caption: Horrified Apostles of Violence – “Begob, the flag has gone back on us!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-02-11
An old Irish man, as Atlas, holds aloft a globe that shows “Ireland” as comprising an entire hemisphere. In his other hand he holds a shillelagh. Shamrocks line the sides and bottom of the design and the title “Puck” is composed of Celtic knots.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-03-15