This essay explores the RIC’s colonial ‘afterlife’, with particular focus on the Palestine Mandate, to where hundreds of disbanded Irish policemen immediately transferred. The international ...

About 1,200 Irish rebels rose up against 20,000 British troops in a doomed attempt to throw off centuries of British colonial rule. The Easter Rising may have failed in that moment, but the ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while ...

Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies. The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but the majority of black people lived in the South ...

This essay explores the RIC’s colonial ‘afterlife’, with particular focus on the Palestine Mandate, to where hundreds of disbanded Irish policemen immediately transferred. The international ...