Empire was central to how Ireland’s nonsectarian colleges justified themselves
Queen’s colleges were established in 1845 in Belfast, Cork, and Galway to serve growing middle-class that included the island’s Catholic majority
British Empire
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The Irish emigrant journey now: Graduate from college, spend 10 years abroad, move home
Last census showed 9% of Irish-born population had come back from living abroad, suggesting a high return rate
White Elephant: A big novel with big questions
Jeyamohan’s humanist story depicts how imperial wealth depended on invisible suffering during the British Raj
The Irish contribution to US independence was downplayed by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants
The story of the American Revolution was mostly written by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who downplayed the role of Scots-Irish and Irish
‘The United States is still an experiment,’ says descendant of signatory of Declaration of Independence
David McKean’s ancestor Thomas McKean was one of eight signatories of Irish descent to sign the document
William Dalrymple: ‘The Scots and Irish like to be the ones who resisted empire, but we were deeply complicit’
The bestselling author and co-presenter of the Empire podcast has brought the Jaipur Literature Festival to Ireland
We the People: A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore – Questioning an outdated document
Failures to amend archaic 18th century constitution is feeding polarisation and paralysis, historian argues
Addressing modern-day atrocity through a lens of historical fiction
My novel Scorched Earth deals with Irish complicity in Britain’s brutal violence against the Boers
Local history: From the Jacobites to Land War, Civil War, and a Brutish empire
Peacetime armed forces of the 1680s, nuggets about the route to the War of Independence, and atrocities in the name of colonisation
Irish people support Palestinians because they recognise the settler colonial process at play
Worldview: Ireland was a pioneer settler colony of England
Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain – Ireland was not exempt from involvement
Podcast duo explore society’s inability to reckon with the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade
Shattered Lands. Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia: Wonderful telling of a sad history
Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan
How Ireland served as a laboratory for the British empire
What we are bearing witness to in the Middle East and Ukraine are cruel - and often unacknowledged - legacies associated with the collapse of the Ottoman, British, and Russian empires
The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire by David Veevers
The author argues that instead of thinking that Britain ‘made’ the modern world we should think about how ‘Britain unmade the world’ by replacing many histories with its own
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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