"It is undesirable that teachers should treat Irish history as an isolated phenomenon or should fail to explain the connection between events in Ireland and the contemporaneous events in Great Britain and Europe"
Why stop there Jim?
The quote continues,
"The tendency, apparent in the syllabi, to study the history of Ireland in isolation was still an issue in the 1970s,"

I did not misinterpret Kineally, that is what she said in the essay.
see it here in her original intended context.
http://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/beyond-revisionism-reassessing-the-great-irish-famine/