Irish Imperial Lives

By RTÉ Radio 1

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Episodes: 13

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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.

Episode Date
William Butler: British Soldier, Irish Writer, Global Adventurer
Sep 12, 2025
Teresa Ball: Educating the Daughters of Empire
Aug 29, 2025
Lambert Blair: Teenage Trader to Slave Plantation Owner
Aug 22, 2025
Richard Wellesley: Ireland’s Forgotten Napoleon
Aug 15, 2025
Musketeers, Maids and Memoirists: The Irish in Imperial Russia
Aug 08, 2025
Grace O’Malley: Pirate, Chieftain, Traitor? 
Aug 01, 2025
Kamala Harris's link to Irish slave owner Hamilton Brown
Aug 20, 2024
Charles Tegart, Police Intelligence Officer
Aug 06, 2024
Charles Gavan Duffy, Premier of Victoria
Jul 30, 2024
The Irish of The Caribbean: Slave Owners and Whistle Blowers
Jul 23, 2024
Commodore John Barry
Jul 16, 2024
The Famine Orphan Girls sent to Australia
Jul 09, 2024
William O’Brien, Second Earl of Inchiquin
Jul 02, 2024