The Bordeaux–Dublin letters, 1757: the voice of an Irish community abroad

In January 2011, while working at the British National Archives at Kew, Dr Tom Truxes (Glucksman Ireland House and NYU) discovered a fragile, dusty collection of documents that had been seized aboard an Irish trading vessel in March 1757. A British privateer had intercepted the Two Sisters of Dublin on its return to Ireland from ... Read more

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