• White men's wars: the paradox of Irish nationalists and the Boer War

  • Aug 30 2024
  • Length: 37 mins
  • Podcast

White men's wars: the paradox of Irish nationalists and the Boer War

  • Summary

  • Emer O'Brien discusses her research on Irish nationalism and the Boer War.


    Emer O'Brien is a fourth year PhD student with University College Dublin's School of History. Her thesis focuses on Irish nationalism and ideas around whiteness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through to the War of Independence, investigating how Irish nationalists adapted global discourses of race for their own campaigns. She is a recipient of the Universities Ireland Centenaries bursary

    Dr Irial Glynn teaches migration history at University College Dublin. He is also the co-editor of historyhub.ie and hosts a series on the history of nativism.

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