Olaudah Equiano’s Irish friends

By Donal Fallon (www.threecastlesburning.com)
The story of Frederick Douglass in Ireland has been well told in recent years, fictionally evoked by Colum McCann’s 2013 novel TransAtlantic, and brought to prominence also by Barack Obama’s 2011 speech on College Green, which focused in no small part on the political alliance between Daniel O’Connell and the great abolitionist.