We at Irish universities owe it to our students to address our imperial legacies
“The #RhodesMustFall campaign began in the University of Cape Town in 2015, worked its way through several South African Universities, before rolling to a standstill in Oxford in 2016. It is easy to see why the statue of British imperialist Rhodes fell in Cape Town, and easier still to see why he didn’t in Britain. In a 2014 poll, 59% of Britons thought that the British Empire was something to be proud of, and 49% thought that those countries colonised by Britain had gained more from it than they had lost …” (more)
[Ciaran O’Neill, TheJournal.ie, 17 November]
Tags: imperialism, NUIG, TCD, UCC, UCD