Politics: Learning the tricks of the imperial secession trade: Irish and Indian nationalism in the ’30s and ’40s

Throughout the first half of the twentieth century many household names from the Indian nationalist movement came to Ireland. Keen friendships developed between a variety of Irish and Indian agitators, […]

Sport: Ranji—the cricketing maharajah of Connemara

On 17 July 1924, as the mail boat docked at its usual berth in Kingstown, it brought the first head of state to the new Irish Free State. A contingent […]

Commemoration:Nationalism, empire and memory: the Connaught Rangers mutiny, June 1920

On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the […]

Repression: The Amritsar massacre, 1919: the Irish connection

During World War I most Indians (like the Irish) supported Britain’s war effort on the assumption that some form of self-government would be granted at the end of hostilities. Instead, […]

Literature: Mythologising a ‘mystic’:W.B. Yeats on the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore

On his third visit to Britain, in 1912, Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore met with a variety of literary figures, such as Ezra Pound and Thomas Sturge Moore. None would prove […]