The case for rethinking Ireland and Empire Updated / Monday, 19 Apr 2021 14:48 "The very different experiences of Ireland as a partitioned island has greatly shaped how Irish history is written." Analysis: The different experiences of Ireland as a partitioned island has greatly shaped how Irish history is written, ensuring a tradition of history framed with a South/North division, or few explicit investigations of how British colonial policies shaped it. By Recent months have seen a flurry of media coverage on the involvement of Irish people in overseas colonialism, ranging from the insightful, to the insipid and the incendiary. As scholars of Empire working on the margins of Irish history, we welcome the renewed focus, public and scholarly, on Ireland's imperial pasts.