Heard a popular saying that did the rounds during the Troubles:
‘If you understand the situation in Northern Ireland then you haven’t been briefed well enough.’
I vaguely remember the back end of it (some of the later bombings, the rigmarole of getting the ferry to Belfast etc). I don’t think anyone born after the GFA, especially ‘on the mainland’ realises just how grim things were.
Probably not the best picture for the headline, though… if one wanted to present some of the worst deeds done by British soldiers, maybe pick out a picture from the 70’s or 80’s….
Fair enough, although I don’t envy the people curating an exhibit essentially about their own nations civil war
They’ve started a great series on YouTube. Very well done and presents the complexities well.
Good. The fact that there were multiple perspectives in the troubles is part of the troubles. Many groups came into existence to enforce & normalise their storyline of events. Often with violence. They wanted the version of history that made their choice of identity the correct choice to be the accepted history. The impact of this continues to this day, people still argue in internet comments sections about who crossed whos lines first. There’s about six different perspectives that each made a compelling argument of “well we were just minding our own business until those shit-bags came along and drove us to an extreme.
There’s no teaching of the troubles without acknowledging that.
This sounds like a really well and thoughtfully put together exhibition. Well done to the curators
This is going to get the British Empire fanatics mad that there is any indication the British might not have been perfect.
Good to see the Imperial War Museum covering an imperial war at last.
Yeah, no “conflicting perspectives”, Irish nationalists deny Unionists right to exist and vote for murderers. We were always the good guys
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Heard a popular saying that did the rounds during the Troubles:
‘If you understand the situation in Northern Ireland then you haven’t been briefed well enough.’
I vaguely remember the back end of it (some of the later bombings, the rigmarole of getting the ferry to Belfast etc). I don’t think anyone born after the GFA, especially ‘on the mainland’ realises just how grim things were.
Probably not the best picture for the headline, though… if one wanted to present some of the worst deeds done by British soldiers, maybe pick out a picture from the 70’s or 80’s….
Fair enough, although I don’t envy the people curating an exhibit essentially about their own nations civil war
They’ve started a great series on YouTube. Very well done and presents the complexities well.
Good. The fact that there were multiple perspectives in the troubles is part of the troubles. Many groups came into existence to enforce & normalise their storyline of events. Often with violence. They wanted the version of history that made their choice of identity the correct choice to be the accepted history. The impact of this continues to this day, people still argue in internet comments sections about who crossed whos lines first. There’s about six different perspectives that each made a compelling argument of “well we were just minding our own business until those shit-bags came along and drove us to an extreme.
There’s no teaching of the troubles without acknowledging that.
This sounds like a really well and thoughtfully put together exhibition. Well done to the curators
This is going to get the British Empire fanatics mad that there is any indication the British might not have been perfect.
Good to see the Imperial War Museum covering an imperial war at last.
Yeah, no “conflicting perspectives”, Irish nationalists deny Unionists right to exist and vote for murderers. We were always the good guys