A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness
Year: 2017

This chapter explores one narrative of Irishness that has been marginalised and largely erased from public memory, namely the Irish regiments in the British Army of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It looks at the heritage of the Connaught Rangers and the manner in which their multiple and conflicting stories reveal the broader ambiguities of the Irish experience of British colonialism, and points to ways in which the diversity of Irishness can be celebrated by recognisi