All of my work on the “Irish slaves” meme (2015–’23)

What follows is a full list of all my recent work challenging contemporary propaganda (based primarily on ahistorical blogs and memes) which equate indentured servitude or penal servitude with…

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@Limerick1914 Very glad to see you here!

We send your work to people a lot for refuting "the Irish were slaves" myth and its gentler cousin, "the Irish weren't always white"

https://queersatanic.tumblr.com/post/693055879735558144/i-wont-get-political-three-drinks-later

"i won't get political" *three drinks later*

[Tweet] [More discussion] To read the full two-volume work, see: "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen For a briefer than 1500 page treatment of “How The Irish Were White From The...

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@Limerick1914 I appreciated this work. I saw an history story on it in a small cultural magazine over here and I assumed it was accurate. It wasn't until I saw people like you posting about the actual history, that I realized how incorrect it had been (although I wasn't falling for the memes a lot of those were clearly racist).