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The Colony's Colony

2023/10/23
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The speaker reflects on their limited knowledge of Irish history during their schooling, acknowledging a lack of focus on the country's history and the true nature of past events. They realize that what they perceived as 'bad luck' and 'internal turmoil' was actually the result of centuries of English colonialism and imposed inequality.
  • Limited Irish history education
  • Mischaracterization of historical events as bad luck
  • Impact of English colonialism and suppression

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Like Scotland, Ireland was another notch on England’s colonial bedpost, ruled from England continuously since the Tudors re-established the Kingdom of Ireland in the 16th century and made sure it was subordinate to English political authority.

But this isn’t a podcast about what England did to Ireland – many of those exist and tell the story far better than I could. This is a podcast about Britain's slaving past.

Featuring researcher Giselle Gonzalez Garcia). 

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