EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is pleased to present Looking East, a multimedia exhibition exploring three centuries of connection between Ireland and India.
The Indian diaspora today forms one of Ireland’s fastest-growing immigrant communities. However Indian migration to this country stretches back much further in time. Dean Mahomet, a young man born in Patna, published the first English-language book written by an Indian while living in Cork in the late 1700s. A century later, Mir Aulad Ali, a Muslim scholar from modern-day Uttar Pradesh, was appointed professor of Arabic, Hindustani and Persian at Trinity College Dublin.
