Over a century after the disastrous blaze, an Irish milkmaid, Catherine O’Leary, and her cow were proven innocent, a scapegoat in the blaze, the Great Chicago Fire, that killed 300 people.
British cartoonist Peter Brookes leaned into the worst of Irish stereotypes for his cartoon in The Times this week about US President Joe Biden's Irish visit.
A new campaign from the EPIC Emigration Museum is seeking to challenge negative stereotypes of Irish people. According to museum researchers, search data .