Martine Brennan
@saytheirnamesir.bsky.social
Public historian #IrishSlaveholders, genealogist, lover of justice, neurodiversity, an teanga, planting trees & music. https://irishhistorians.ie/members/martine-brennan/ https://tinyurl.com/4t76e8ep
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"Our experience of colonisation and resistance of a catastrophic manmade famine and forced immigration gives us lived understanding of dispossession, hunger, and war and a mandate for Ireland to lead.”
Úachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly President of Ireland.
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Úachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly President of Ireland.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Our experience of colonisation and resistance of a catastrophic manmade famine and forced immigration gives us lived understanding of dispossession, hunger, and war and a mandate for Ireland to lead.”
Úachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly President of Ireland.
🇮🇪 🇺🇳
Úachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly President of Ireland.
🇮🇪 🇺🇳
With special thanks to @stacyacole.bsky.social for her research into William #McWhir theyhadnames.net/2021/03/29/slaveholder-series-william-mcwhir/ 2/2
Slaveholder Series: William McWhir - They Had Names
An excerpt of this post appears in Irish public historian Martine Brennan’s powerful project “Enslavement to Citizenship” documenting Irish-born Americans’ participation in slavery. William McWhir: I...
theyhadnames.net
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
With special thanks to @stacyacole.bsky.social for her research into William #McWhir theyhadnames.net/2021/03/29/slaveholder-series-william-mcwhir/ 2/2
Reposted by Martine Brennan
