DETAILS
Wednesday 20th August 2025 at 6:00pm (AEST), 9:00am (IST)
Dr Ciaran O’Neill, Trinity College Dublin
Irish colonial solidarities, particularly Irish-Native American solidarities
ABSTRACT
This talk will explore how Irish people understand their historical links to settler colonialism and how valid or common it is for them to express solidarity with other colonised peoples, particularly Indigenous groups. Focusing on the relationship between the Irish and Native Americans, especially the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma since the 1990s, the talk will explore these expressions of solidarity. It draws on thousands of comments submitted by Irish donors to a GoFundMe page between 2020 and 2024.
SPEAKER
Dr Ciaran O’Neill is the co-director, with Dr Patrick Walsh of the Trinity’s Colonial Legacies project. His research centres on the social and cultural history of Ireland empire, colonial legacies, modern literature and public history. He is Principal Investigator of Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Paris 1922, funded by the Commemorations Unit at DTAGSM, and of RISING, a Creative Ireland Climate Action collaboration between Unit 18 at Trinity, Brokentalkers, Dublin Theatre Festival, and Algorithm.
LOCATION (Online only)
This online seminar will be held via Zoom. The Zoom room will be open 10 minutes before the scheduled start to give everyone time to connect. Please keep your microphone on mute for the duration of the talk. There will be time for questions at the end of the seminar. Please RSVP to Dianne.hall@vu.edu.au if you would like the zoom link.