Yes, this does highlight the need for education on these issues. The average Brit needs to do more to be aware of how the British Army terrorised the country in the lead up to the war of independence including numerous incidents resulting in civilian deaths.
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By ‘education’ does he mean that we – both the British and Irish – should be taught about how Lloyd George threatened the Irish delegates with immediate and terrible war during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations? The atrocities of the Black and Tans? How Craig supported the early Belfast pogroms? Or how about the murder of the McMahon family by the USC? The early sectarian murders in Belfast? The NICRA? Burntollet? Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy? People’s Democracy? The UW strike? Collusion?
Or does he want to propagate a simplistic lie about how their brave boys were slaughtered by the big bad terrorists in the IRA?
We could all do with more education, the British especially, but don’t misconstrue education with propaganda.
Unfortunately from one of the other threads there is a postcolonial cultural cringe that some Irish people still hold to. You can be one of the good Paddy caricatures and sing Danny Boy all day long, but the Brits only respect fortitude and strength.
You cannot and should not give them an inch. These women had nothing to apologise for at all.
Not that I condone the singing, – i don’t, I think they should have known better – I do however find it funny that a people colonised should have to apologize to the state that colonised them for singing a song referencing the resistance group that was only set up to fight to said occupation.
Education, the Irish are well known for the level of good education among the population and are reputed to be one of the best educated people in the world. Education, we know more about Anglo-Irish history than the other party to Anglo-Irish history, the english! The english education system has been ashamed to teach the history of how they treated the Irish people for all of those centuries, from suppressing the language the culture and the religion of the Irish nation to inflicting famine on the nation and causing emigration on a level that compared with nowhere else on earth. Denuding the land of our oak trees to build their battleships….. the list goes on. Education, it’s the english who need education in the wrongdoings of their forebears. Education, the Irish are educated enough. It’s the english who need education!
Video would have been better if it was just Jack telling him to deck off
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Yes, this does highlight the need for education on these issues. The average Brit needs to do more to be aware of how the British Army terrorised the country in the lead up to the war of independence including numerous incidents resulting in civilian deaths.
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The only valid response
By ‘education’ does he mean that we – both the British and Irish – should be taught about how Lloyd George threatened the Irish delegates with immediate and terrible war during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations? The atrocities of the Black and Tans? How Craig supported the early Belfast pogroms? Or how about the murder of the McMahon family by the USC? The early sectarian murders in Belfast? The NICRA? Burntollet? Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy? People’s Democracy? The UW strike? Collusion?
Or does he want to propagate a simplistic lie about how their brave boys were slaughtered by the big bad terrorists in the IRA?
We could all do with more education, the British especially, but don’t misconstrue education with propaganda.
Unfortunately from one of the other threads there is a postcolonial cultural cringe that some Irish people still hold to. You can be one of the good Paddy caricatures and sing Danny Boy all day long, but the Brits only respect fortitude and strength.
You cannot and should not give them an inch. These women had nothing to apologise for at all.
Not that I condone the singing, – i don’t, I think they should have known better – I do however find it funny that a people colonised should have to apologize to the state that colonised them for singing a song referencing the resistance group that was only set up to fight to said occupation.
Amazing 👏
Haha, very good.
Absolutely hilarious
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Nice work OP
[How did that gobshite get on the television?](https://youtu.be/QS06cLEyowg)
Education, the Irish are well known for the level of good education among the population and are reputed to be one of the best educated people in the world. Education, we know more about Anglo-Irish history than the other party to Anglo-Irish history, the english! The english education system has been ashamed to teach the history of how they treated the Irish people for all of those centuries, from suppressing the language the culture and the religion of the Irish nation to inflicting famine on the nation and causing emigration on a level that compared with nowhere else on earth. Denuding the land of our oak trees to build their battleships….. the list goes on. Education, it’s the english who need education in the wrongdoings of their forebears. Education, the Irish are educated enough. It’s the english who need education!
Video would have been better if it was just Jack telling him to deck off
That would be an ecumenical matter.
BRILLIANT!!!
Gold