Ireland’s Imperial Connections, 1775–1947

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This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain’s imperialism, from its formative period in the late eighteenth century through to the decolonizing years of the early twentieth century. Framed by two key events of world history, the American Revolution and Indian Independence, this book examines Irish involvement in empire in several interlinked sections: through issues of migration and inhabitation; through literary and historical representations of empire; through Irish support for imperialism and involvement with resistance movements abroad; and through Irish participation in the extensive and intricate networks of empire. Informed by recent historiographical and theoretical perspectives, and including several detailed archival investigations, this volume offers an interdisciplinary and evolving view of a burgeoning field of research and will be of interest to scholars of Irish studies, imperial and postcolonial studies, history and literature. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 “Residing in this distant portion of the great empire”: The Irish in Imperial Halifax, Nova Scotia (Peter Ludlow, Terrence Murphy)....Pages 17-35 From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa (Eve Patten)....Pages 37-56 Walking to China: Infatuation and the Irish in New South Wales (Killian Quigley)....Pages 57-74 Competing Narratives: White Slavery, Servitude and the Irish in Late-Eighteenth-Century America (Martyn Powell)....Pages 75-99 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 “Humble Obedience to the Will of Heaven”: Charles Johnston’s Providential and Migratory Sensibility (Daniel Sanjiv Roberts)....Pages 103-120 Prudence and Prejudice in Maria Edgeworth’s “Murad the Unlucky” (1804) (Sonja Lawrenson)....Pages 121-141 “A work purely local?”: Narratives of Empire in George Benn’s A History of the Town of Belfast (Jonathan Jeffrey Wright)....Pages 143-168 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 The 1857 Indian Uprising in Irish Ballads: Voices of the Subaltern (Raphaela Adjobimey)....Pages 171-189 Afghanistan, the Indian “Mutiny,” and the Bicultural Stereotype of John Nicholson (Pramod K. Nayar)....Pages 191-212 Violent Resistance: The Irish Revolution and India (Kate O’Malley)....Pages 213-229 Front Matter ....Pages 231-231 Stateless and Destitute: The O’Rourke Family of Saint-Domingue, Nantes and Wexford, 1788–1805 (Orla Power)....Pages 233-250 An Irish Surgeon in Barbados and Demerara: Vexation, Misery and Opportunity (Jennifer McLaren)....Pages 251-272 “Colouring the map red”: Lady Hariot Dufferin and the Imperial Networks of the Dufferin Fund (Sarah Hunter)....Pages 273-290 Back Matter ....Pages 291-323