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Laurence Cox: Empire, Sedition and the forgotten Irish Buddhist monk who faced down the British in Burma
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Dr Laurence Cox is an associate professor of sociology at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth. He is also one of the three authors of “The Irish Buddhist”, the story of U Dhammaloka and his clashes with the British Empire in the early 20th century.
We talk about Dhammaloka (born Laurence Carroll in Dublin, or so we think), Buddhism among the Irish, going native, Kipling’s “Kim”, the Irish in 19th Century America, and what stories like these mean in the aftermath of the Mother and Baby Homes report and the death of George Nkencho.
Plus Zoe Lyons raises a small fleadh onto The Plastic Pedestal…
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