This working paper is currently being updated and restructured. Hope to be completed by June 2016. In the interim see my other work on this topic. 1. ‘Irish slaves’: the convenient myth https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/liam-hogan/%E2%80%98irish-slaves%E2%80%99-convenient-myth 2. The unfree Irish in the Caribbean were indentured servants, not slaves http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish-slaves-myth-2369653-Oct2015/ 3. Debunking the imagery of the “Irish slaves” meme https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74#.5z9rd4o45 4. How the African victims of the Zong Massacre were replaced with “Irish slaves” https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/how-the-african-victims-of-the-zong-massacre-were-replaced-with-irish-slaves-2574dac1fc55#.kvmpw76m5 5. The “Forced Breeding” myth in the “Irish slaves” meme https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/the-racist-myth-within-a-racist-myth-8eac2c890e92#.6nhxywz0d 6. A review of the numbers in the “Irish slaves” meme https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/a-review-of-the-numbers-in-the-irish-slaves-meme-1857988fd93c#.vz0pvefwj 7. Exaggeration and the appropriation of the torture of enslaved Africans in the “Irish slaves” meme https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/we-had-it-worse-eebe705c41a#.fpth3drvi 8. When History Goes Bad http://www.rabble.ie/2016/02/04/when-history-goes-bad/