In the Hour
In the preface to this book, I asked what new ways might await us in the 21st century and beyond ? And what value does Ireland’s experience of colonisation and diaspora have for others, especially other colonised peoples.
I wasn’t thinking of the guerrilla war tactics of the Irish independence war that inspired other nations like India into similar actions—with all their b****y fallout and partial autonomy. Rather, that Ireland was the first colony of what went on to be the Age of Imperialism’s largest empire. That it was on the island of Ireland where colonisers first practiced the plantations and penal laws that stripped away “native” culture, language and dignity. That, refined and expanded, these tactics went on to be used against other peoples in Africa, the Americas, an
