Drawing parallels between Ireland and Nagaland - its history, aspirations for self-determination and struggle for a future shaped by Naga people and values, Ambassador of Ireland to India, Kevin Kelly, noted that Ireland, too, had once been part of the “machinery of empire” when it was a colony, describing it as “a very complex history.”

He was speaking at The BookHome Library in Billy Graham Road Kohima as part of a conversation organised by PenThrill Publication House in collaboration with the Embassy of Ireland on December 3.

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, historian, academic and member of the Royal Irish Academy, was the other resource, who threw light on her book titled, Making Empire, which explores how the Irish were colonised.

It also examines how “Ireland helped to unmake empire, bec

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