“Derry Girls has educated me about the Good Friday Agreement better than my British school did,” wrote another Twitter user.
British fans of “Derry Girls” took to Twitter to claim that Wednesday night’s series finale taught them more about the Good Friday Agreement than the UK education system did.
The hugely popular sitcom ended with a 45-minute special on Wednesday, concluding with a poignant five-minute montage about the historic Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
Signed on April 10, 1998, the agreement effectively brought the Troubles to an end in Northern Ireland and set the region on the way to power-sharing between nationalist and unionist parties.
The historic agreement, which prevents the installation of a hard border on the island of Ireland, has come under threat since Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016.
“Derry Girls” viewers took to Twitter following Wednesday’s extended finale to praise the series for covering the issue so thoroughly.
“I learned more about the Good Friday agreement in the five-minute closing Derry Girls montage than I learned in the entirety of my education in the UK, and that is literally not an exaggeration in the least,” Manchester artist Dan Hett wrote on Twitter.
Derry Girls has educated me about the Good Friday Agreement better than my (British) school did,” wrote another Twitter user.
“As a child of the 90s, #DerryGirls gave me more insight into the politics of Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement than school ever did. And has motivated me to go away, learn more and understand better. All while making me laugh and cry. Incredible program,” said another Derry Girls fan.
Irish viewers also took to Twitter to praise the show for covering the issue of the Good Friday Agreement so thoroughly.
“Sometimes there are no words that can adequately capture the emotion and significance of something as horrific as Bloody Sunday or important as the Good Friday Agreement,”
https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/derry-girls-good-friday-agreement-finale
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British? Educated? On there crimes against humanity? Are you a stand up comedian?
Why expect people to be educated about political agreements in foreign countries.
(edit: and redditors complain when people add the s)
LOL. Wait til these poor bastards taking to twitter, fucking twitter?… Learn about the rest of Britain’s beautiful history.
It’s like when that female black American politician working in Trumps administration said “Racism was never a problem in America”
Do you think Italian schools speak about Mousslini era missions to Africa? I doubt it.
Great timing.
Free state propaganda 50 years too late is all it is.
I’m not sure we will see it taught in the U.K. for a long time, I don’t know but we literally learned nothing in history that happened in the last 50 years so I wouldn’t expect the gfa to be on it, I went through school till 2009 and we never learned about the falklands, the Korean War, the first gulf war, 9/11 or any recent history.
We did touch on Ireland in a level but only of the context of the Easter rising and home rule and Gladstone..
I would also expect with a migrants coming from abroad the curriculum might focus on the partition of India somewhat more in future, since that is more globally significant but I don’t know.. I wouldn’t expect to see the gfa for another 20 years if ever, I hope people have read more sources than Derry girls though..
I’m glad if it’s educating people, but I’d rather kill myself than watch Derry Girls.
>”I learned more about the Good Friday agreement in the five-minute closing Derry Girls montage than I learned in the entirety of my education in the UK, and that is literally not an exaggeration in the least,” Manchester artist Dan Hett wrote on Twitter.
Probably the least surprising thing an Irish person will read all day.
You mean to tell me the English don’t teach their kids about the reality of their history but instead focus on the times they won and their royal history? Well colour me not at all shocked in any form or fashion.
I don’t think this is as ground breaking as some feel it is. No nation teaches of it’s own failings/short comings/crimes.
We all know enough about Irelands failings and crimes, that we didn’t learn at school.
I honestly thought they were Irish.