India and Ireland, two countries and societies thousands of kilometres apart, have one thing in common – British imperialism. However, the process of colonisation and the Empire was different in ...

Spurious comparisons between British rule in Ireland and the Atlantic slave trade found a nexus beyond parody last year, when former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan said her family would consider ...

Earlier, Michael Dwyer — a veteran of the 1798 Rebellion and thorn in the side for British rule in Ireland — had taken shelter here in the winter of 1799.