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Empire, imperialism and Ireland – Irish Times Podcast

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Irish Times – Inside Politics Podcast 5th March 2021 President Michael D Higgins sparked a debate recently with his sharp critique of British imperialism. In a piece for the Guardian, he accused some academics and journalists of a “feigned amnesia”…

March 7, 2021

Ireland has yet to come to terms with its imperial past

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In July 2019 Boris Johnson asked why Leo Varadkar isn’t “called Murphy like all the rest of them”. This ethnocentricity has a long history in an Ireland that for centuries was a laboratory for empire, where racist ideologies were formulated…

January 6, 2021