Empire: World History — 235. The Viceroy, The Psychopath, and The Merchant: The Irish in Empire (Ep 3)

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235. The Viceroy, The Psychopath, and The Merchant: The Irish in Empire (Ep 3)

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Ireland may have been England’s first colony but, by the 17th century, Irishmen were carving out their own imperial legacies in India. Gerald Aungier, an ambitious East India Company official, saw Bombay as a new frontier for plantation and trade. Drawing from his family’s plantation experience in Ireland, he laid the…

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