An O'Donnell from Donegal in the Amazon? | Jane Ohlmeyer on Irish Stew

Historian Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin, author of Making Empire) on the Irish at their worst and their best in Iquitos, Peru: the rubber baron Fitzcarraldo, his O'Donnell right-hand man, and the town's mural of Roger Casement.

Full episode: https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/jane-ohlmeyer?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jane-ohlmeyer&utm_content=audiogram

Rubber baron illustration: Benjamín Saldaña Rocca, La Felpa, 1908, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

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