Lambert Blair: Teenage Trader to Slave Plantation Owner
Lambert Blair: Teenage Trader to Slave Plantation Owner
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Richard Wellesley: Ireland’s Forgotten Napoleon
Abie Philbin Bowman and Kate O’Malley uncover the story of Richard Wellesley, a Meath man who conquered more of India than Napoleon did in Europe. A supporter of Catholic Emancipation and opponent of slavery, he was later overshadowed by his brother. His legacy includes ties to King Charles III and Daniel O’Connell’s Ireland.
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Musketeers, Maids and Memoirists: The Irish in Imperial Russia
Abie Philbin Bowman and Kate O’Malley explore the Irish who shaped Romanov Russia, from General Peter de Lacy’s bold campaigns to the Wilmot sisters of Cork, who bonded with Enlightenment figure Princess Dashkova. They also uncover servant Eleanor Cavanagh’s letters describing life among Russia’s serfs and palaces.
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Grace O’Malley: Pirate, Chieftain, Traitor?
Kate O’Malley and Abie Philbin Bowman explore the fact, fiction and folklore of ‘Pirate Queen’ Grace O’Malley. Did she meet Queen Elizabeth I? Kidnap a lord’s grandson? How did she handle growing British power, and how many marriages did Gaelic law allow? From Trad Wife to Girl Boss, Grace’s story is full of surprises.
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Kamala Harris's link to Irish slave owner Hamilton Brown
We explore a family link acknowledged by Kamala Harris's father, to Hamilton Brown. Brown travelled from Ireland to Jamaica in the 1700s to work as a bookkeeper. He acquired several plantations farmed by enslaved people. As momentum built to abolish the trade, Brown strove to undermine the abolitionist cause and was paid considerable compensation.
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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