Irish Religion In The 1800s

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Religion conquered many individual’s opinions and mindset during the 1800’s, but religion became the biggest conflict between the Irish and the Natives. The country at the time possessed mainly Protestants, but with the accumulating Irish population, the Protestants felt their religion would decrease and become the minority. In Nativist New Yorker Disparagers Irish Arrivals, George Strong describes the churches of the Irish and the conflicts they faced, because of the differences in both religions. “Met a Know-Nothing procession moving uptown… They looked as if they might have designs on St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and I think the Irish would have found them ugly customers” (Strong’s Dairy). The Irish people worshipped in the St. Patrick’s Cathedral