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Padraic X. Scanlan

Padraic X. Scanlan
Padraic X. Scanlan is an associate professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and The New Inquiry. The author of Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine and two previous books, he lives in Toronto.


An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan on Jonathan Swift, Colonization, and Dispossession
May 7, 2025  By Padraic X. Scanlan
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