BIHT Zoom Lecture: Tuesday 14 January 2025, 18:30-20:30 GMT
Valerie Haye, of the British in India Historical Trust, has supplied the following details of a zoom lecture being given on Tuesday 14 January by Jane Ohlmeyer.
Making Empire: Ireland and India
Jane Ohlmeyer
Tuesday 14 January 2025, 18:30-20:30 GMT (ZOOM)
With a focus on Ireland and India, this lecture examines five themes. First, Ireland was England’s oldest colony and formed an integral part of the English imperial system, just as India did, albeit from a later period. Second, Ireland served as a laboratory for empire in the Atlantic world and in India. Third, as well as being colonised, the Irish operated as soldiers and servants of empire in India. Fourth, as well as being servants of the empire, Irish people were subversives within it and helped to unmake empire in the Indian subcontinent. Finally, the legacies of empire today will be explored briefly.
Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World (2023), based on her 2021 James Ford Lectures, Oxford University, and editor of The Cambridge History of Ireland, vol. 2.
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Valerie Haye
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