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Thread #45911   Message #3794900
Posted By: Jim Carroll
11-Jun-16 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Incidentally
This is the mythology that was taught in Irish Schools - nothing to do with teaching to hate anybody, rather it is exactly the opposite.
"The first annual report of the Department of Education highlighted the fact that the central educational aim of the Free State was 'the strengthening of the national fibre by giving the language, music, history and tradition of Ireland their natural place in the life of Irish schools'.25 Policy makers intended history to reflect a romantic but unhistorical ideal of Ireland's Gaelic past held by many Irish revolutionaries. Pearse, for example, idealised education in pagan and early Christian Ireland and argued that its character could be revived through an education of 'adequate inspiration'.26 He believed that 'a heroic tale is more essentially a factor in education than a proposition in Euclid ... what Ireland wants beyond all...is a new birth of the heroic spirit'.27"
It comes directly from one of your above references
HOLOHAN
You will not find a reference to "brainwashing children to hate", or distorting or lying or anything resembling any of these things.
Neither will you find anything in the works of Kineally though she uses this book extensively.
It points out how, after gaining independence Ireland began to imbue children to understand Ireland and no longer being a subject of Britain but an independent nation - 'The Harp without the Crown' or 'Ourselves Alone' (the literal traslation of 'Sinn Fein')
You are the only one to have suggested children were taught to hate - you have never produced a single quote of anybody making such a disgusting claim.
I hadn't realised Holohan's book is on line - I've just read it - it's extremely easy to access and understand, though I doubt if you will overcome your "disinterest" in order to do so.
On the basis of nothing that ersembles evidence you will continue to describe Ireland as a gullible, brainwashed nation - which makes yo the racist you are.
This is all yourown work not Kineally's, not Holohan's, not even Richardson's - all yours
Jim Carroll