The strange, colliding worlds of Tagore and Yeats

On 4th May 1799, the British forces defeated the famed king of Mysore in a battle, largely owing to the king's chief minister betraying him. About 8500 kms away, the battle finds a reference in a 200 ft talk Obleisk in Phoenix Park, in Dublin Ireland. But is that the only legacy India has left in Ireland, of a war an Indian ruler lost to the British? This week, in the twelfth episode of the series Ireland Untravelled, we discover the legacy of India, in the form of one of its most outstanding polymaths. Tune in, and discover the strange colliding worlds of two national poets, the unlikely connection between them and what it means to be a nationalist today.

Till then Check out the other episodes of "Ireland Untravelled"

Lost Treasures, Dynamite and the Irish Nation : https://ivm.today/3okwxm5

Gaelic and the stunning decline of the Irish Language : https://ivm.today/3zmhE9i

Trinity Long Room and the Soul of the Irish Nation : https://ivm.today/3PnZkSE

U2, Body Snatching and the Irish Way of Death : https://ivm.today/3IQ6fl3

Bombay, Paris and the improbable victory for LGBTQ+ rights in Ireland : https://ivm.today/3AJLa9B

Irish roads that go nowhere, Houses no one lives in : https://ivm.today/3PGG95X

Titanic, Mosul and the Global shame of Western Museums : https://ivm.today/3R9uBce

Three Irish Women, Emigration and India's National Anthem : https://ivm.today/3KfZdqz

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