Maurice J. Casey

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Continually fascinated by the tale of Ira Aldridge, an African American actor who made several visits to Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s. I would never have imagined that my local area could claim a 19th Century Black History - and yet Ira Aldridge seems to have made an impression on Cahir and Clonmel when he played in the local courthouses in early 1833.
This clip from October 1921 is almost certainly the first film footage documenting people of African descent in Ireland.
Nelson and Winnie Mandela on their wedding day, 1958 - to their left is Mandela’s Irish-Jewish comrade Michael Harmel.
Back in Ireland after a week tracing romance and revolution across the 19th and 20th centuries. I’m having a drink in honour of every family who refuses to throw away old documents just in case some day a historian appears in their email inbox.
You will remember from my last post that I came here because I found a box of love letters in 2017 written from Elisa to Joyce.
In 2017, I discovered a box filled with love letters in an attic in the Cotswolds. The letters were written over three decades, sent from Elisa, the Moscow-born daughter of a German revolutionary, to Joyce, the daughter of an Irish novelist. The letters tell the story of a romance, but they also illuminate the revolutionary world that brought these two women together.
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