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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | Irish Universities and Imperial Legacies | The Global Irish Network at Trinity College Dublin
Description: Recorded November 17, 2020.
A panel discussion with the Global Irish Network in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub for Arts and Humanities Research
This panel will address recent debates over Ireland’s links to the legacies of Empire, including the transatlantic slave economy, networks of cultural appropriation, and embedded financial inheritances, from the perspective of the Irish university and related institutions. The discussion will take its lead from current disputes over racial and imperial representations in the UK university system, notably, the controversy over the Rhodes Statue at Oriel College, Oxford, and extend these to an Irish context. In hosting th...