Nobody draws the Irish this way anymore. I blame cancel culture. 
In greater seriousness, I know the whiteness literature is a little out of fashion right now, but it's hard for me to look at 19th century art & not conclude that Anglo-American WASPs racialized Irish Catholics.
Some people have noticed that the woman (Bridget McBruiser, an example of Irish depravity from Samuel Wells' 1866 New Physiognomy) looks like the Grinch. That's not an accident.
One compelling argument made by @philnel is that Dr. Seuss used ethnic stereotypes not just for human characters but also as the basis of various fanciful or anthropomorphic creations like The Grinch & Cat in the Hat.
This is not - I want to be clear on this - an argument for delisting or cancelling the Grinch or Cat in the Hat. The stereotypes they were built on are so distant & suppressed that they are really invisible (or almost so) to contemporary readers. But it's good history to know
So, something I didn't know:the simian Irish imagery continued for as long as X-Men #28 (1967) with The Banshee. (Created by Roy Thomas and Werner Roth).
https://twitter.com/Jezzerat/status/1373149788586319874
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