My take is that gingers are almost exclusively Irish (or Scottish) in heritage which was the closest thing to having a minority before black people were invented.
You're probably right. Back then it would've been an exotic, almost provocative character casting to have the potato-munching, ruddy-faced, devil-flame coloured hair, drunken sops known as "irish" people be shown on any form of media outside of their cultural stereotypes of the time.
My take is that gingers are almost exclusively Irish (or Scottish) in heritage which was the closest thing to having a minority before black people were invented.
You're probably right. Back then it would've been an exotic, almost provocative character casting to have the potato-munching, ruddy-faced, devil-flame coloured hair, drunken sops known as "irish" people be shown on any form of media outside of their cultural stereotypes of the time.