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Thread #45911   Message #3788377
Posted By: Jim Carroll
03-May-16 - 04:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
You obviously do not understand the article you have scooped up nor the Kineally quotes that blew up in your face.
Irish history blaming Britain, as outlined by Kineally, cease to be taught when the Free State ended and 'The Emergency Period' in Ireland necessitated that Irish people could freely emigrate to Britain for work, which would not have been facilitated by biting the hand that they expected to feed it.
That is the whole point of her attack on revisionist historians who, since that period, have avoided apportioning blame for anything - read her book.
It is why there was never a substantial work on the Famine until 1995 and probably why there has never been one on The Uprising.
"but I am very well read on the period 1914-1918 which of course includes the rising."
Thank you for confirming your ignorance on the Rising - no British history book, on the war, or anything else, has ever covered the Easter Rising as anything more than a passing reference.
The only British historian to have done so is Robert Kee, in his trilogy and he devotes no more than a few paragraphs itself - if this not the case - name one British history book which has,
Now - back to the real world - go away
Jim Carroll