Some newspapers, including the "San Francisco Leader" and the "New York Irish World", first published in 1823, were renowned for their anti-English articles. The "Irish World" blamed the mainland United Kingdom for the depopulation and desolate state of Ireland's industries. One newspaper, the "Gaelic American", called a student performance of the British national anthem by some girls of Irish heritage from a convent school an act of disloyalty, where they were taught to reverence the traditions of the hereditary enemy of their race and religion.