HISTORICAL DISTORTIONISTS by Donal Kennedy - Jude Collins

HISTORICAL DISTORTIONISTS by Donal Kennedy - Jude Collins: When President Obama visited Ireland in 2011 he was briefed by distortionists . Those who wrote or heard his speeches may  have imagined that Daniel O’Connell was the only Irishman supporting the rights of black people. But  from  the United Irishmen and women in the 1790s through John Boyle O’Reilly* in the 19th Century to …