It seems evident that Irish immigrants coming to America were treated with incredible disdain and experienced tremendous discrimination. After all they were largely a Catholic group living within a Protestant society. It seems, however, that the Irish were able to quickly assimilate into American society. How and why did the Irish assimilate so quickly.



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Their early arrival, their skills with the language, their political and religious power all enabled the Irish Catholics to acculturate to American society more quickly than any other group but the Jews.