(A guest post by Dr. Laurence Cox of the National University of Ireland Maynooth) On a Friday 13th in 1911, the colonial Chief Court of Rangoon tried and failed to put an Irishman on trial for sedition. The problem wasn’t…
Tag: anti-colonialism
An Irish Buddhist agitator in Burma:
filming a different kind of anti-colonialism
(A guest post by Dr. Laurence Cox of the University of Maynooth, Ireland) On Saturday March 2nd 1901, a barefoot Irishman confronted an off-duty Indian police officer at the Shwedagon pagoda in colonial Rangoon, challenging his right to walk there…
Roger Casement: traitor and hero
I just spotted a new article on the BBC’s website about Roger Casement, so I thought I’d link to it. The main ‘thesis’ is as follows: Author Angus Mitchell, who has written several books on Casement, believes he was not…