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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Patrick Maume comments on the most recent issues in History Ireland
Patrick Geoghegan’s article on Daniel O’Connell’s denunciations of slavery and refusal to accept support from American slaveholders is an useful reminder of the extent to which O’Connell’s belief in liberty went beyond Irish particularism. It is possible to expand on it in a few points.
Much existing material on Irish Papal soldiers (see Robert Doyle’s article in the September/October issue) derives from officers – voices from the ranks are rare.
Anyone who does research on Irish cultural history in the nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries will find incidental references to India cropping up.
When researching nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Irish subjects for the Dictionary of Irish Biography I came across a number of figures with Indian connections.
William Cooke Taylor (1800-49) and Percival Barton Lord (1808-40) provide interesting micro-studies of Irish involvement with Indian empire in the first half of the nineteenth century.
