So I can't tell you when the last sign came down, but it wouldn't surprise me if it persisted until WW2 when military service erased many former ethnic barriers. Last I checked, WW2 was in the middle of the 20th century.
"No Irish need apply" is usually associated with the mid-nineteenth century, and academics dispute as to how widespread the sentiment was.
142 posted on 04/06/2018 5:45:23 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
If it makes you happy to fight about it, whatever.
149 posted on 04/07/2018 1:20:58 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
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