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The Irish and the Haitian Revolution – Map of San Domingue (public domain)
Edward and Catherine Despard – Col Despard – National Portrait Gallery
Ira Aldridge – Ira Aldridge – National Potrait Gallery
Richard Robert Madden – The Abolition of the Slave Trade
Frederick Douglass’ return journey – Fredrick Douglass, 1848 – Chester County History Center
The Fisk Jubilee Singers – The Fisk Jubilee Singers (Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, Special Collections)
The Black Atlantic and the Irish Revolution – S.S._(SS)__ROWAN_SURVIVORS_British Pathe
The Scottsboro-Mooney Tour – Scottsboro-Mooney Tour (Everett Collection)
Lady Kathleen Simon – Lady Kathleen Simon – National Portrait Gallery
Windrush and Ireland – HMT Empire Windrush (Imperial War Museum)
Michael Harmel and the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement – Michael Harmel with Yusuf Dadoo (Courtesy of Lisa Lamb and University of the Witwatersrand)
We Shall Overcome – Civil rights March NI (Image Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland)