I was at school in England in the 1990s and the textbooks just didn't mention Ireland
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My uncle nicknamed my cousins budgie Oliver. Because he really Fecking hated that budgie.
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Never understood in a rich history of radicalism in 1600s with diggers and levellers why some in England do this. Novara person the recent iteration of historical amnesia on this
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Yeah, Michael’s tweet was utterly pathetic, and he was both unrepentant and unapolgetic. Not surprised: did a podcast on NI for him and this was my face when he kept saying “Catholics” when he meant Republicans.pic.twitter.com/XlOEwLy07C
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100% this (early 00s English comp) Opened mouthed bafflement at the fawning accounts of Cromwell Literally had to go and check it was the same one (pre smartphones!)
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As someone who was born and bred in Mayo the phrase "to hell or to Connacht" has been seared into my brain.
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Our Olevel History was 1760-1871 but along with the Enclosures being framed as a land grab by the gentry - our moustachioed ex-army teacher made it very clear how the Brit aristocracy used Ireland as a sinecure and committed genocide by famine. Didn’t have a good word for OC...
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Yes, this is 100% correct. I went to school in the late nineties/early noughties and we were taught absolutely nothing about what he did in Ireland. The Civil War was about the King getting chopped and the fighting in England, and that was it
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I read the Walter Macken Trilogy years ago - although these are novels they probably tell you more than history books about what happened in Irelamd
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Cromwell was a brutal fanatic
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