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Boole Library Exhibition - Dr Jemima Hodgkinson
Launched on April 14 2025 and curated by Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Jemima Hodgkinson, this exhibition which runs until July 2025 shows how key events in the Irish Revolution were reported on in the African American press, 1919-23.
Dr Hodgkinson's exhibition features extracts from the Philadelphia Tribune, Chicago Defender, and Negro World, among others, commenting on De Valera’s Tour of America (1919-20), MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike (1920), and the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1922).
This exhibition highlights a long history of solidarity between Irish nationalists and black civil rights activists.
This exhibition has been developed in collaboration with the US historian and journalist Mark Nolan and two editors of the award-winning Atlas of the Irish Civil War (2024) Hélène O’Keefe and John Borgonovo.
Generously funded by Research Ireland and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages, Cultures (CASiLaC) and the Future Humanities Institute.
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For further information please contact Dr Jemima Hodgkinson at JHodgkinson@ucc.ie thank you.