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Thread #45911   Message #3788368
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
03-May-16 - 03:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Rag, it is true I do not read books on Irish history, but I am very well read on the period 1914-1918 which of course includes the rising.
That is how I have been able to expose your ignorance of the facts behind the rising, and your gullible acceptance of the myths deliberately created about it and presented as historical fact to generations of Irish school kids.

" As a part of the school curriculum, the subject of history taught young learners a monolithic nationalist, anti-British and pro-Catholic history that was heavily dependent upon allegory and collective memory."

"The nationalist role ascribed to history in primary schools was not as pronounced in secondary schools. This was because the type of indoctrination involved was more effective with younger subjects,"

"Gaelic culture was proclaimed as not only relatively, but absolutely better than others. Nationalist history was not only pro-Irish but anti-British."
http://etudesirlandaises.revues.org/2119