Michael S. Silvestri
Clemson University (Clemson, SC 29634-0001)
FT-54671-06
Summer Stipends
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2006 – 7/31/2006
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Ireland and India: Nationalism, Empire and Memory
The imperial and colonial legacies of Ireland have been the subject of considerable controversy in recent years. My project explores the imaginative dimension of Irish-Indian relationships in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a consideration of three issues: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as British imperial heroes, and Irish nationalist commemoration of the mutiny of a regiment of Irish soldiers in India. My study will incorporate the perspective of Ulster Unionists as well as Irish and Indian nationalists.
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