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Thread #45911   Message #3788238
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
02-May-16 - 04:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Jim, the Home Rule Bill 1914 was genuine.
No secrets.
There is no suggestion that the Irish Nationalist members did not have full confidence in it, or the people of Ireland.

No-one suggested partition until the final stages, and then only a temporary exclusion for Ulster was requested and agreed.
The Bill was passed with an unusually large majority of 77.

Had Belgium not been invaded it would have come into force at once.
But for the rising, it would have been enacted unchanged after the armistice.

The rising poisoned the well of negotiation and brought years of bloody conflict in place of a peaceful transition.

Education,
Kineally tells us that the Irish school system pushes "nationalist myths" instead of objective history. Is that not brainwashing?
Do you approve of it?
They also push religion. I know you object to that.
Read here about both abuses in Irish schools, and the propaganda text books.
(the text is in English) http://etudesirlandaises.revues.org/2119