IRELAND
Ireland was then under English Control but the majority of the population were Roman Catholic. The Protestants wanted to bring more “balance” to the country. They were so anxious to dilute the Catholic population that they considered Jews as Protestants for this purpose and many of them immigrating to Dublin created the foundation of the Irish Jewish population in modern Ireland.
Having endured centuries of near slavery and discrimination, 70,000 Irish people signed this petition urging American-Irish immigrants to understand the similar plight of African-Americans and to join together with abolitionists. Irish immigrants were nevertheless reluctant to join the abolition movement because the movement was often tied to anti-Catholicism and many feared that the emancipation of Blacks would increase competition for the low-paying jobs immigrants held.
Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.
