It is 100 years today since the Amritsar Massacre in India, when British troops opened fire on peaceful demonstrators in the Punjabi city of Amritsar, killing several hundred people.

Festival contributor Ronan McGreevy has written an interesting article in the Irish Times today about an Irish connection to the Massacre, through the figure of Sir Michael O’Dwyer from Tipperary who was governor of the Punjab at the time. Meanwhile here is the entry on O'Dwyer from the Irish Dictionary of National Biography, via the RIA. O'Dwyer was assassinated in 1940 by a young Indian nationalist, Udham Singh, who is thought to have been present as a child at the Amritsar Massacre.