‘I will sing the song of companionship’Remembering Peter Doyle, the former Confederate Soldier from Limerick who was Walt Whitman’s lover and museNov 11, 2023Nov 11, 2023
My 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”…Aug 6, 2023Aug 6, 2023
Anti-Slavery Activism on Bedford Row (1838–1855)Honouring the Black Abolitionists who lectured in Limerick City in the mid-nineteenth centuryAug 7, 2021Aug 7, 2021
Factcheck: 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…Apr 11, 20202Apr 11, 20202
Collective 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…Dec 16, 20193Dec 16, 20193
American 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…Nov 1, 2019Nov 1, 2019
An Irish slave in Antigua“Mulatto Jack” was an Irishman enslaved in Antigua and imprisoned during a slave conspiracy investigation in 1736Sep 5, 2019Sep 5, 2019
Trump 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…Aug 7, 2019Aug 7, 2019
How 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…Jan 17, 20191Jan 17, 20191
Conflation 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…Nov 30, 20182Nov 30, 20182
