This thread speaks directly to the coordinated ethno-nationalist and white nationalist backlash to the We Are Irish hashtag.
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"To us state and race are one." - Adolf Hitler (1923)
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Liam Hogan Retweeted Liam Hogan
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"A negro...taken up in St. Louis...turns out to be a free Irish emigrant...born in Waterford" (The Daily Journal, 4 Sep 1854)pic.twitter.com/Sv1hzKcnEi
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"Alfred Brophy...the Irish negro" (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 23 Dec 1906)pic.twitter.com/4CjNgvQjuv
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The earliest account that I've found of African people present in Ireland dates back to the late 1500s, almost half a millennium ago.
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I see your 1500, and raise you another 1000 years... :) https://irisharchaeology.ie/2015/03/immigrant-burials-in-late-iron-age-meath/ …
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ah shite, I forgot that fella, just tweeted about the reference from AD 867 :)
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
Those two are fab :) Fwiw, this also interesting from 14thC?https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/740140377982783493 …
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facinating, wonder what he was up :)
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Indeed!
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