Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s

Burnard, Trevor

Abstract

This chapter characterises the shifting relationship between Irish and Welsh nationalists during the mid-twentieth century and then outlines the cooperative history of several significant Irish and Welsh organisations. The precursor was the Irish Anti-Partition League, whose activities in Ireland and Britain in the 1940s and early 1950s brought Irish and Welsh nationalists together in a manner only ever imagined at gatherings of the primarily academic Celtic Congresses. From here, further attempts at cooperation can be traced in the civil disobedience campaigns of the Irish and Welsh language movements, and in the activities of paramilitary groups such as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Welsh associates such as the Free Wales Army and Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru. In suggesting that the Irish have risen up against authority when threatened at various times across history, it is interesting to observe how this Welsh call to arms now returned to Ireland in the form of language activism.

Citation

Burnard, T. (2015). Ireland, Jamaica, and the fate of white protestants in the British Empire in the 1780s. In A. McCarthy (Ed.), Ireland in the World Comparative, Transnational, and Personal Perspectives (15-33). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315749020

• Online Publication Date: Jul 8, 2015
• Publication Date: Jun 12, 2015
• Deposit Date: May 28, 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 15-33
• Series Title: Routledge studies in modern history
• Series Number: 16
• Book Title: Ireland in the World Comparative, Transnational, and Personal Perspectives
• Chapter Number: 1
• ISBN: 9781317607847; 9781138812062
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315749020
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3579638