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Liam Hogan
@Limerick1914
Librarian & Historian. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power. Now on Bluesky https://t.co/m1br1HA8vY
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Mar 19 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Racial Slavery Denialism in 2024: Elon Musk’s “we were all slaves” reactionary position which does not argue that the transatlantic slave trade did not happen, but instead infers that it does not matter and that it has no legacy to understand, accept or reckon with. This is akin to saying something like “we all have ancestors who killed in wars and who died in wars” when you are trying to discuss the Holocaust. That’s how casual this denialism is.
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Murray is deliberately conflating nationalism and ethno-nationalism here. He is a supporter of Orbán’s ethno-nationalist anti-immigration regime in Hungary and is obsessed with limiting migration to Britain and Europe, describing multiculturalism as “death.” Murray: “Europe is committing suicide.”

Nazi Rally (NY, 1939): “[we began] to decay the moment affluence and a consequent suicidal Liberalism brought about a lowering of racial barriers permitting an increasing degree of alien influence upon the Culture in question...”
May 12, 2023 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
"The fascist project was to remake human beings into a new kind of ruthless, hard, pitiless entity [and] to expunge humanitarianism from the political system and from people’s consciences." - Richard J. Evans The far-right use economic and social grievances to find common ground with potential recruits as part of the radicalisation process. They’ve done so every year post-Nuremberg. This is what they do and they can thrive in a moral vacuum.
May 10, 2023 • 32 tweets • 6 min read
I keep seeing these takes about Irish people “not counting” as white in U.S. history and honestly, there is nothing historical about such a claim. The Irish were included in the ‘white’ column of every colonial census going back to Stapleton’s Leeward Islands survey in the 1670s. ImageImage An Irish immigrant's "white" socio-legal status was ensured by a U.S. Statute passed in 1790 which established a "uniform rule of naturalisation" for "any alien, being a free white person.”
May 8, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Image Fascism and ethno-nationalism have always been international ideologies.
Nazism itself was partly influenced by the work of American white supremacists, eugenicists and official racist immigration policies.
May 6, 2023 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
American Nazi Party (1965)
Elon Musk (2023) ImageImage Related thread(s).
May 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Virginia (1705): "If any slave resist his master...shall happen to be killed in such correction, it shall not be accounted felony but the [person] so giving correction shall be free and acquit of all punishment and accusation for the same, as if such incident had never happened." North Carolina (1715): “Any person or persons [may] kill any Runaway Slave that hath lyen out two months...such persons shall not be called to answer for same if he give Oath that he could not apprehend such Slave but was constrained to kill him."
May 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The latest far-right conspiracy theorist to push the “Irish slaves” line is the Musk-promoted racist and anti-semitic extremist E. Michael Jones. Jones has previously described the Civil Rights Movement to end racial segregation as a “Jewish war on the South.” Image He has over 47k followers and being Musk-ticked, his anti-semitic output is promoted and prioritised by the Twitter algorithm. No surprise that he also promotes Gemma O’Doherty’s brand of ethno-nationalist ‘great replacement’ hate literature. Image
Apr 29, 2023 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
It really is amazing how reactionary and shallow Elon Musk truly is. When asked to explain a nonsensical phrase he used online he states that “[it means] you can’t question anything” and then provides a vague and purely anecdotal ‘cancel culture’ tale about George Washington. The mumbled George Washington example is an intentional inversion of the actual reality and history of how his slave ownership was not sufficiently acknowledged by the nationalist narratives/myth making at public history sites, memorials and by the U.S. education system.
Apr 27, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
George Berkeley: "It would be of advantage to the [slave masters]" to convert their slaves to Christianity as "Gospel Liberty [is consistent] with temporal Servitude; and [their] Slaves would only become better Slaves by being Christians." (1725) Great working paper here on Berkeley’s Legacies at Trinity by @amhuss27, Ciaran O’Neill and @SpeakerConolly. I’m particularly stunned by the tired moral relativist arguments by some of those who wish to retain the name. tcd.ie/seniordean/leg…
Apr 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Context: British taxpayers subsidised British slave trading companies, slave forts, slave plantations and paid £20 million in reparations to *slaveowners* in 1834. Daniel O'Connell MP: "If money is to be given, give it to the wretched slaves; but do not give it to the men who hold a lash over the backs of their fellow creatures. I protest against remuneration to the planters in principle - I protest against it in practice."
Apr 23, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
This one continues to circulate so let’s assess it briefly. So yes, many thousands of Europeans were made captives & slaves in North Africa. But the claim of “one million white Europeans” enslaved by Barbary corsairs comes from the flawed work of Robert C. Davis. This claim is so popular among the far-right that it has become a meme that they frequently use in their attempts to negate the history & legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. They invoke the Barbary slave trade in the same way that Neo-Nazis use Dresden.
Apr 12, 2023 • 33 tweets • 5 min read
This confused letter abuses the history of the horrific Cromwellian massacre at Drogheda in an effort to depict transportation as an "Irish slave trade" comparable to the transatlantic slave trade. We've been here before but once more into the breach I guess. Firstly let's put this into context. The first Irish troops banished to the Anglo-Caribbean as indentured servants after capture during the War of the Three Kingdoms were not those who survived at Drogheda.
Apr 3, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
One of the most depressing aspects of the current “Evil Literature” censorship movement in Ireland is that they are targeting the reading materials for one of the most sensitive demographics that use the public library system. A visit to a local library is their break from a heavily structured secondary school curriculum. They enter a space where they can be more independent and have more autonomy in choosing what to read or do.
Apr 2, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The Gardai enforce the laws of the state. Harris has been an elected legislator for 12 years. Currently the law puts an individual’s right to property above another individual’s right to housing. Hence ‘no fault’ evictions. If only someone had the power to change this. By way of comparison, even the *Tories* in Britain are planning on abolishing Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions. This means that landlords will need to issue a Section 8 notice instead if they wish to regain possession of their property. gov.uk/government/pub…
Mar 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In 1850 there were at least 724 different slave owners in the U.S. with the surname Evans and they enslaved thousands of African Americans in Virginia, Georgia, S. Carolina, N. Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Louisiana and Mississippi. Of these *126* were named Jonathan or John Evans.

If the convicted felon Jonathan Derrick Evans could provide some evidence of Irish ancestry back to the 1650s I would be interested in seeing it.
Nov 5, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Thanks to everyone for their kind words. I wish this wasn’t happening but the choice has been made for us. We were sold out and I now refuse to countenance giving this Musk-poisoned company my free labour/content. Let’s all catch up over on Mastodon. You can find me here. I spent the day on it yesterday. Took a while to get the hang of it but it was a lovely experience. Join us. mastodon.ie/@Limerick1914
Sep 10, 2022 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
When slavery was abolished in Jamaica in 1834, the following Irish surnames were present in the long list of compensated slave-owners: Barry, Bourke, Boyle, Brady, Brennan, Broderick, Buckley, Burke, Byrne, Carey, Carroll, Codd, Coleman, Collins, Conway, Corbett, Costello, Cowan, Creighton, Crowley, Cuming, Cummings, Cummins, Curran, Dalton, Daly, Delaney, Devaney, Devoy, Dillon, Doran, Downes, Doyle, Duggan, Dunn, Dunphy, Egan, Farrell, Fennell, Fenton, Fergus, Finn, Fitzgerald, Fitzhenry, Fogarty, Foley, Garvey, Gaynor, Geary, Geoghegan, Gildea, Gill,
Jun 12, 2021 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Gov. DeSantis: “Critical Race Theory teaches kids to hate our country and to hate each other.” (2021)

The KKK: “In our schools and libraries are books that create hatred and dislike among the people of different sections of America. The Klan is pledged to true history.” (1922) *six days ago* Image
Nov 30, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Before and After the Great Famine (population density per 100 acres, 1841-1851) rte.ie/history/post-f… “We have not too much population.” Richard Allen’s account of the Famine in Ireland (1847) limerick1914.medium.com/we-have-not-to…
Jun 11, 2020 • 69 tweets • 15 min read
"For this child to use this word, he would have to identify my weakness as being black, so he had to absorb and internalise the complex power dynamic of systemic racism from somewhere." irishtimes.com/opinion/i-was-… Martinique, the former French slavocracy where Sean's parents migrated to Ireland from, was a major market for the Irish provisions industry in the 18th century. This was all linked to the Irish presence in Nantes, inc. the aforementioned Franco Irish slave trading families.