Irish Imperial Lives

Abie Philbin Bowman and Kate O’Malley learn about the extraordinary Willam Butler. A Catholic from Tipperary, he was held aloft by Daniel O’Connell as a baby, witnessed the famine, fought the Fenians in Canada, served as Queen Victoria's Aide-de-Camp, befriended Parnell, and openly supported Irish Home Rule. He nearly prevented the Boer War.
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Kate O’Malley and Abie Philbin Bowman learn about an incredible Irish woman, who helped educate girls from Canada to India. Teresa Ball, founder of the Loreto order, used her dowry to develop her first school, pioneering a business model that offered young women opportunities for education, travel and greater independence.
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Lambert Blair: Teenage Trader to Slave Plantation Owner
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Abie Philbin Bowman and Kate O’Malley hear about a Meath man who conquered more land in India, more quickly, than Napoleon conquered in Europe. And yet, he is largely forgotten today - in part because he has been eclipsed by his ungrateful younger brother. Richard Wellesley - whose Irish ancestry dates back to the 12th Century, and whose descendants include the current British King Charles III - was a lifelong opponent of slavery and Supporter of Catholic Emancipation. Both his wives were Catholic. And he served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the time of Daniel O’Connell.
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Abie Philbin Bowman and Kate O’Malley learn about the Irish who shaped Romanov Russia: including the musketeer Peter de Lacy, who led a daring amphibious assault on Stockholm, and commanded the Russian forces who captured the Crimea (from the Ottoman Turks).
They also hear about the Wilmot sisters from Cork who formed an exceptional bond with one of the leading lights of the European Enlightenment, Princess Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova.
The Princess effectively adopted the younger sister, Martha, as her daughter and the two composed, and translated Dashkova’s life story in French and then English. We also learn about the letters sent home by Catherine Wilmot’s maid, Eleanor Cavanagh, who provides a servant’s eye view of Russia’s serfs and palaces.
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