I missed the bit where Ghandi toured POW camps and tried to persuade members of his ethnic group to fight for Germany. Or where he tried to import guns to kill Englishmen.

Obviously that was left out of our textbooks.

England's behaviour contrasts so dramatically with the wise compassionate line on traitors taken by the IRA.

I certainly had been told about the Irish famine of the 1840's by the last year of my primary school in 1960. We were also told about England's disgraceful behaviour towards the people of Ireland. It was in our textbooks.

the relentless line about the perfection of Ireland gets a bit wearing you know.
Even Keith and Teribus aren't daft enough to pretend that.