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Summary
"Scientific Racism" from an American magazine, Harper’s Weekly, shows that the Irish are similar to Negroes, and should be extinct.

An illustration from the influential American magazine Harper's Weekly shows an alleged similarity between "Irish Iberian" and "Negro" features in contrast to the higher "Anglo-Teutonic." The accompanying caption indicates that the so-called Iberians were "believed to have been" an African race that invaded first Spain and then, apparently, Ireland, where they intermarried with native savages and "thus made way...for superior races"

Drawing by: H. Strickland Constable. 1899, Ireland from One or Two Neglected Points of View see here

http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/unit_2.html