Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-04-12
Books mentioned on Part One: That Time Britain Did A Genocide in Ireland
Robert is joined by Prop to discuss the bastards of the Great Hunger. FOOTNOTES: https://www.
Robert Evans discussed The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen, and The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Famine Plot
The Famine Plot is a historical examination written by Tim Pat Coogan that argues British policies during the Irish Famine amounted to a deliberate genocide.
Discussed“I'm going to read a quote by Irish scholar Tim Pat Kugan in his book, The Famine Plot. From the Vatican's point of view, the attraction of this arrangement lay in the fact that Rome would exert its authority through the appointment of handpicked bishops”
Where to get it
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The Invention of the White Race
The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W.
Discussed“And I want to quote next from the book The Invention of the White Race by Theodore Allen. The option for racial oppression left no room in the ranks of the colonial upper upper class for Catholic Irish chieftains for all that some of them might wear the title sir.”
Where to get it
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The Great Hunger
Discussed“In his 1962 text, The Great Hunger, historian Cecile Woodham Smith, which is a very English name for a guy who's who's writing a a very critical book about the Great Hunger. Uh, man's a proper Brit.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Invention of the White Race
“there is I think an extent like again a lot has been written and that's not really not the focus of this episode on like how the Irish became white and I'm fairly certain there's actually a book by that title.”