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The first thing that came to my mind was: Very unfortunate, very unhelpful. But you know what I thought of right away? Ithought of my own family, my family, like a whole lot of people, came from Ireland on what they called the coffin ships then. Came here and worked the railroads. The Irish were really looked down upon back in those days. I hear all these stories from my relatives about ‘Irish need not apply.’.