Liam Hogan

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Photo of Newtown House and courtyard showing the extent of the property.
Irish Independent Fuel protest organiser had tax judgments of €550,000 and was convicted of cruelty after 60 cattle died on farm James Geoghegan says: 'There's no point trying to bring up that sort of dirt on me now'
"[If there be no distress], why are the people in a state of disturbance and insubordination within a short distance of the very seat of Government? Is there no cause for this, and is the calumny to be pronounced upon the people of England, that they break out into acts of violence without the pretence of suffering? Nothing is said about the alleviation of distress, and, above all, nothing is said about the alleviation of the distress of Ireland."
The fears of the American abolitionists had become excited, had, indeed, began to run high, that American slaveholders would prove themselves able to gag even Daniel O'Connell. But your late speech, which has blistered these tyrants from head to foot, and filled this land with their howlings and execrations, has put an end to all those fears. You perhaps, wonder why so little money is sent to you by American abolitionists. Be assured that it is not from the want of a lively interest in your efforts to obtain, by peaceable means, for Ireland, the right of making, and being governed by, her own laws. Be assured, too, that it is not because they think that they have not the right to express this interest. The sympathy of unsophisticated man for his brother man naturally, necessarily, and therefore rightfully, travels across national as well as city or village boundaries, and wherever that sympathy proceeds, its appropriate expressions and proofs have, of course, the right to follow. If I have the right to feel pity for a hungry and naked family in France, then I have also the right to follow up the pity, by sending a barrel of flour or a roll of cloth to that destitute family. The doctrine, that the conventional lines, which men have drawn upon the earth's surface, decide the question for whom we may and for whom we may not feel, is utterly repugnant to an unselfish and unspoiled heart. To tell me that I may not love him who dwells on the north side of the St. Lawrence, as well as him who dwells on the south side of that river; and that because a man is a Canadian, I may feel less pity for his woes than if he were an American, is to tell me what my nature and the God of my nature flatly contradict. I sympathise with your countrymen under their oppressions, for I hold that a people are grievously oppressed, who, not to speak of other wrongs they may be suffering, are denied entire freedom of religious conscience. But, were the Irish suffering no oppression, I should sti…
Flatley telling far-right conspiracy theorist Gemma O'Doherty to "don't give up the fight" against non-white migration.
Klan leader David Duke in a car marked "Klan Border Watch"
The Irish middle passage, for but one example, was as foul as my own, and as dishonorable on the part of those responsible for it. But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking. The Irish, therefore and thereafter-again, for but one example-had absolutely no choice but to make cer- tain that I could not menace their safety or status or identity: and, if I came too close, they could, with the consent of the governed, kill me. Which means that we can be friendly with each other anywhere in the world, except Boston. What a monumental achievement on the part of those heroes who conquered the North American wilderness! The price the white American paid for his ticket was to become white-: and, in the main, nothing more than that, or, as he was to insist, nothing less. This incredibly limited not to say dimwitted ambition has choked many a human being to death here: and this, I contend, is because the white American has never accepted the real reasons for his journey. I know very well that my ancestors had no desire to come to this place: but neither did the ancestors of the people who became white and who require of my captivity a song. They require of me a song less to celebrate my captivity than to justify their own.
Lynchings by states and counties in the United States, 1900-1931 : (data from Research Department, Tuskegee Institute); cleartype county outline map of the United States.
RESOLUTION ORDERING THE INQUIRY. By the Senate of the United States of America: IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, March 31, 1876. Resolved, Whereas it is alleged that the late election in Mississippi (in 1875) for members of Congress, State officers, and members of the legislature was characterized by great frauds committed upon and vio- lence exercised toward the colored citizens of that State and the white citizens disposed to support their rights, and especially that the col- ored voters, on account of their color, race, or previous condition of serv- itude, were by intimidation and force deterred from voting, or com- pelled to vote, contrary to their wishes, for candidates and in support of parties to whom they were opposed, and their right to the free exercise of the elective franchise, as secured by the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, thus practically denied and violated, and that such intim- idation has been since continued for the purpose of affecting future elections; and Whereas the people of all the United States have an interest in and a right to insist upon the enforcement of this constitutional amendment, and Congress, having the power to enforce it by appropriate legislation, cannot properly neglect the duty of providing the necessary legislation for this purpose: Therefore Resolved, That a committee of five Senators be appointed by the Chair to investigate the truth of these allegations, and to inquire how far these constitutional rights have in the said election been violated by force, frand, or intimidation, and to inquire and report to the Senate before the end of the present session whether any, and, if so, what, legislation is necessary to secure the said colored citizens the free enjoyment of their constitutional rights; and that said committee be empowered to visit said State, to send for persons and papers, to take testimony on oath, and to use all necessary process for these purposes.
But I have not been an inattentive observer of passing events. They have hated despotism; but they have hated despotism, as I understand them, chiefly because they suffered from the despotic power of the tyrant, and not because they loved liberty. When the Irish people, and when our own people, have accepted the great truth, that it is not enough to hate the tyrant, but that it is necessary to love liberty for the sake of liberty, then we and they will have a just right to contend for liberty, and there will be good reason for believing in our success in the contests in which we are engaged.
Excerpt describing "Kulturbolschewismus" using analogies involving art, music, Einstein, and others.
A page of a book displaying text in black and white. The content discusses the reception of an Irish Address by exiled Irish individuals in America, expressing disappointment at their disengagement from anti-slavery movements. The writing critiques the influence of American slavery on their perspectives and highlights failed attempts to engage them in public meetings regarding the Address.
Dear Friends : You are at a great distance from your native land ! A wide expanse of water separates you from the beloved country of your birth—from us and from the kindred whomyou love, and who love you, and pray for your happiness and prosperity in the land of your adoption. We regard America with feelings of admiration: we do not look upon her as a strange land, nor upon her people as aliens from our affections. The power of steam has brought us nearer together ; it will increase the intercourse between us, so that the character of the Irish people and of the American people must in future be acted upon by the feelings and dispositions of each. The object of this address is to call your attention to the subject of slavery in America—that foul blot upon the noble institution and the fair fame of your adopted country. But for this one stain, America would indeed be a land worthy your adoption ; but she wnll never be the glorious country that her free Constitution designed her to be, so long as her soil is pol- luted by the foot-prints of a single slave. Slavery is the most tremendous invasion of the natural, inalienable rights of man, and of some of the noblest gifts of God, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." What a spectacle does America present to the people of the earth ! Aland of professing Christian repul)licans, uniting their energies for the oppression and degradation of three millions of inno- cent human beings, the children of one common Father, whosuffer the most grievous wrongs and the utmost degradation, for no crime of their ancestors or their own ! Slavery is a sin against God and man. All who are not for it must be against it. None can be neutral. We entreat you to take the part of justice, religion, and liberty. It is in vain that American citizens attempt to conceal their own and their country's degradation under this withering curse. America is cursed by slavery! We call upon you to unite
This is an advert for a runaway slave that James Hoban placed in a Charleston newspaper (1789). "Peter" must have been captured for he appears in the list of Hoban's slaves that worked on building the White House in 1792.
An old newspaper article featuring Henry Ford's defense of the Klan as a patriotic organisation.
Musk then argued that if you're not committing genocide, then you can't be called a Nazi. "What's relevant about Nazis is like, are you invading Poland? And if you're not invading Poland, maybe you're not" a Nazi, he said. "You have to be committing genocide and starting wars. " "What is actually bad about Nazis — it wasn't their fashion or their mannerisms, it was the war and genocide," he added.
The destruction of the past, or rather of the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century. Most young men and women at the century's end grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remember what others forget, more essential at the end of the second millennium than ever before. But for that very reason they must be more than simply chroniclers, remembrancers and compilers, though this is also the historians' necessary function. In 1989 all governments, and especially all Foreign Ministries, in the world would have benefited from a seminar on the peace settlements after the two world wars, which most of them had apparently forgotten.
Image showing the title page of Lothrop Stoddard’s book ‘The Rising Tide of Color against white world-supremacy’
Black and white image of a historical document discussing the impact of war on Ireland and its people.
Yesterday being St. Patrick’s day, this festival was celebrated here by all the Irishmen residing at Paris. General Kilmaine, who commands the centre of the Army of England, and is a native of Ireland, assisted at this fête; Tom Paine was likewise present. Among several other toasts, the following was drank: “Long Live the Irish Republic.” Immediately after dinner, General Kilmaine left town on his return to the army. Napper Tandy was in the chair, and on his right and left sat Kilmaine and Tom Paine.