Photo of Edward Plunkett,18th Baron Dunsany, from the George Grantham Bain collection at the Library of Congress

Race, crannogs and the end of empire: Lord Dunsany and the Harvard Irish Mission (1932–6)

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In this month’s blog, Patrick Maume explores a contemporary fantastical response to the Harvard Irish Mission’s questionable 1930s anthropological study of the Irish.

Blog image: Edward Plunkett,18th Baron Dunsany, from the George Grantham Bain collection at the Library of Congress. All rights reserved.

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