LAURENCE FENTON
Newspaper Articles
'This Side of Paradise - An Irishman's Diary on the Irish Connections to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Debut Novel', Irish Times, 26 March 2020
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'The Story of Freed Slave Frederick Douglass's Time in "Beautiful" Scotland', Scotsman, 11 April 2018
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‘The Great Abolitionist Douglass and Cork’s Apostle of Temperance’, Irish Examiner, 28 February 2014
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Magazine Articles
'Clean Hands? Ireland, Slavery and the Slave-Trade', History Ireland, September/October 2020
'How Frederick Douglass Gained More than His Freedom in Britain', The American Magazine, January/February 2019
'Frederick Douglass and Robert Burns: The American Abolitionist and Scotland's National Poet', History Scotland, February 2018
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'A Confession of Being a Gael: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ireland', Books Ireland, November/December 2017
'Thrills, Spills and Chick-Lit: A First World War Soldier’s Reading List’, History Ireland, November/December 2016
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‘The Leslie Connection: How a Forgotten Irish Writer Set F. Scott Fitzgerald on the Path to Literary Fame’, Books Ireland, September/October 2015
‘Frederick Douglass aboard the Cambria, 1845’, History Ireland, September/October 2014
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Reviews
Kinealy, Christine (ed.), Frederick Douglass and Ireland: In His Own Words (London: Routledge, 2018), Books Ireland, January/February 2019
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
‘Charles Rowcroft, Irish-Americans, and the “Recruitment Affair”, 1855–1856’, The Historical Journal, December 2010
‘Origins of Animosity: Lord Palmerston and The Times, 1830–41’, Media History, November 2010
Blog Posts
'Frederick Douglass in Bristol: Time for the African-American Abolitionist's Visit to the City to be Commemorated with a Blue Heritage Plaque?' Amberley Publishing Blog, 24 May 2018
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