This exhibition explores how key events in the Irish Revolution were reported in the African American press between 1919 and 1923. Running until July 2025, the exhibition features extracts from major Black newspapers including the   Philadelphia Tribune,   Chicago Defender, and   Negro World, offering commentary and critique on three key events in the revolutionary period:

Curated by Dr Jemima Hodgkinson, a Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow specialising in the history of anti-slavery and anti-colonial movements, as they developed across Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. 

The exhibition has been developed in collaboration with US historian and journalist Mark Holan, as well as Hélène O’Keefe and John Borgonovo, two of the editors of the award-winning   Atlas of the Irish Civil War (2024).

This exhibition has been generously supported by Research Ireland, the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC), and the Future Humanities Institute.