[BlueDragon]

So that particular gin-joint didn't want any Irish paper-hangers. Maybe they could just go paper Irish bars, instead.

Besides, the balance was to be paid in whiskey. It may have been in part, sound business decision to exclude Irishmen. *^)

[MarkBsnr]

There weren’t any Irish bars at that point - the immigration had just begun. You may wish to Google up Thomas Nast’s antiCatholic cartoons from the 1800s in order to view the level of antiCatholicism at that point.