Anti-Irish sentiment

Anti-Irish sentiment includes oppression, persecution, discrimination, or hatred of Irish people as an ethnic group and/or a nation. In general, it can be directed against the island of Ireland, or in particular, it can be directed against Irish immigrants and their descendants in the Irish diaspora. This sentiment is also called Hibernophobia.

It is traditionally rooted in the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Age and the Age of Enlightenment and it is also evidenced in Irish immigration to Great Britain, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Anti-Irish sentiment can include social, racial and cultural discrimination in Ireland itself, such as sectarianism or cultural, religious and political conflicts such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland.