Amy Martin on “The Origins of Irish Internationalism”
James M. Stewart '32 Theater 185 Nassau Street, PrincetonMartin’s lecture is drawn from her current book project: a study of the internationalism central to Irish nationalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the lecture, she will explore Irish writings on the Sepoy rebellion in India and the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica. By comparing events in these locations to the history of colonialism in Ireland, nationalist writers develop a theory of empire and specifically of imperial violence.