Liam Hogan·Nov 11, 2023‘I will sing the song of companionship’Remembering Peter Doyle, the former Confederate Soldier from Limerick who was Walt Whitman’s lover and muse
Liam Hogan·Aug 6, 2023My expanded response to CNN reporters’ questions about a DeSantis appointee’s endorsement of “Irish…Last week I was contacted by a CNN journalist about a recent Ron DeSantis appointee who has previously endorsed “Irish slaves”…
Liam Hogan·Aug 7, 2021Anti-Slavery Activism on Bedford Row (1838–1855)Honouring the Black Abolitionists who lectured in Limerick City in the mid-nineteenth century
Liam Hogan·Apr 11, 2020Factcheck: Were the Irish the first slaves in America?On the 27 August 2019 the Democratic Party Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris marked the 400th anniversary of the first recorded…A response icon2A response icon2
Liam Hogan·Dec 16, 2019Collective Punishment: Mob Violence, Riots and Pogroms against African American Communities…In 2015 we launched a volunteer collaborative project which sought to collate (and map) a comprehensive record of white mob violence that…A response icon3A response icon3
Liam Hogan·Nov 1, 2019American slaves ‘emancipated’ in MonaghanI recently found this interesting account of slaves being brought to 1830s Ireland by their Irish owner in the Harvard Law School Caselaw…
Liam Hogan·Sep 5, 2019An Irish slave in Antigua“Mulatto Jack” was an Irishman enslaved in Antigua and imprisoned during a slave conspiracy investigation in 1736
Liam Hogan·Aug 7, 2019Trump and the El Paso terrorist share more than anti-Hispanic racism.A relatively overlooked aspect of the El Paso terrorist’s white nationalist manifesto was his specific rationalisation of violence against…
Liam Hogan·Jan 17, 2019How Haitian “zombie” folklore entered the American imaginationThe Haitian “zombie” folklore mythology entered white American cultural consciousness during the 1920s-30s, that is, during the U.S…A response icon1A response icon1
Liam Hogan·Nov 30, 2018Conflation and Omission: Angela Nagle’s historical negation of the racism behind the Chinese…There are many substantive critiques of Nagle’s reactionary anti-immigration article (see here, here, here, here, here, here and here) but…A response icon1A response icon1
