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Ireland
Also known as Éire, Irish Republic
The Irish Republic (Éire), the independent state covering most of the island of Ireland in northwestern Europe, with its capital at Dublin. Ireland's connections to the Indian subcontinent run through multiple threads: the Irish Theosophical and Celtic Revival networks (W.B. Yeats, James H. Cousins and Margaret Cousins at Madanapalle 1915-1948), the 1920s Irish-Indian anti-colonial solidarity (Éamon de Valera's correspondence with Gandhi and Nehru), the 1850s famine-era Irish emigration to British India through colonial military service, and the Catholic Jesuit and Christian Brothers missions that founded dozens of educational institutions across colonial India (Loyola College Chennai, St Xavier's Mumbai-Kolkata-Ahmedabad). Modern Ireland and India established diplomatic relations in 1947; the Irish Embassy at Delhi and the Indian Embassy at Dublin maintain the bilateral relationship.
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Patron dynasty
- Irish Republic
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 53.350, -6.260
Connections (1)
- BirthplaceMargaret Cousins
Margaret Cousins was born as Margaret Elizabeth Gillespie at Boyle in County Roscommon, Ireland, on 7 November 1878. She trained at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, married the Irish poet James H. Cousins in 1903, and together they became active in Dublin's Celtic Revival and feminist movements. The couple moved to India in 1915 at Annie Besant's invitation, settling first at Madanapalle and then at Adyar. Margaret Cousins' Irish Celtic Revival background and Theosophical conversion shaped her later work in India founding the Women's Indian Association (1917) and the All-India Women's Conference (1927). Her Irish origin ties the subsequent Indian women's movement to the parallel Irish and Irish-American suffragist networks of the 1900s-1920s.
Sources
Standard reference; Indo-Irish diplomatic history.
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