Signs In Windows

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house catering to his kind and went looking for a job but found instead signs in windows saying “No Irish Need Apply.” A cemetery asked him to dig graves and lower the dead. In America today there are no signs like that. Black and brown apply and whites sometimes hire them. My father was white. But in 1920 his brogue was a long rope that almost lynched him. Donal Mahoney