A detailed, seven part series of articles by Irish historian Liam Hogan systematically demolishing the white supremacist myth of there being Irish slaves in the Caribbean or Americas, and that these ...

A Facebook post falsely claiming that Irish people were systematically sold as slaves in the 17th century has been shared almost one million times. The post, which has been debunked by the Reuters ...

Over recent months, social media in Ireland and the United States has been saturated with claims and counterclaims about ‘Irish slaves’ and a broader controversy about Irish complicity in the ...

National protests against police brutality amid a global pandemic have caused many Americans to reckon with the country’s history of racism and inequality. The moment has caused a fake historical meme ...

The first instalment in this two-part series, which focused on dismantling the ‘Irish slaves’ myth, made three critical assertions: first, that the attempt to draw equivalence between Irish (and ...

A lengthy post relating to Irish people and slavery has been widely reposted and shared on Facebook. The text is from a widely discredited 2008 article. The piece is credited to a John Martin whose ...

Cot Daley was just 13 when she was captured, stowed below decks in the filth and darkness of a slave ship, transported across the Atlantic to Barbados and sold on the block to the master of a sugar ...