Anti-Irish sentiment
![American political cartoon by Thomas Nast titled](/Images/godic/202501/18/TheUsualIrishWayofDoingThings4258.jpg")
![An Irishman depicted as a gorilla](/Images/godic/202501/18/Monkeyirishman4258.jpg")
![One of two](/Images/godic/202501/18/NINA-nyt4258.JPG")
Anti-Irish sentiment or Hibernophobia may refer to or include racism, oppression, bigotry, persecution, discrimination, hatred or fear of Irish people as an ethnic group or nation, whether directed against Ireland in general or against Irish emigrants and their descendants in the Irish diaspora.