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Irish Imperial Lives

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From workhouse girls to colonial Governors, and from Tangiers to Tasmania, Kate O'Malley and Abie Philbin Bowman uncover the fascinating stories of Irish people whose lives were shaped by their service in, or agitation against, the British Empire.

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Irish people who worked in the British Empire

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Irish Imperial Lives

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William Butler: British Soldier, Irish Writer, Global Adventurer

Teresa Ball: Educating the Daughters of Empire

Lambert Blair: Teenage Trader to Slave Plantation Owner

Richard Wellesley: Ireland’s Forgotten Napoleon

Musketeers, Maids and Memoirists: The Irish in Imperial Russia

Grace O’Malley: Pirate, Chieftain, Traitor?

Kamala Harris's link to Irish slave owner Hamilton Brown

Charles Tegart, Police Intelligence Officer

Charles Gavan Duffy, Premier of Victoria

The Irish of The Caribbean: Slave Owners and Whistle Blowers

Commodore John Barry

The Famine Orphan Girls sent to Australia

William O’Brien, Second Earl of Inchiquin

Preview - Today with Claire Byrne

Irish people who worked in the British Empire