"If you search your memories, Jim, I believe you will find that Ireland was British soil for hundreds of years before the UK occupied India"
And if you open your books Richard, you'll find that opposition to British rule goes back beyond Cromwell.
As an internationalist, I have no great interest in national boundries one way or another, but I have come to realise that others attach great importance to them and are prepared to die for them.
I wonder how long we Brits would have gone on fighting if Nazi Germany had won the war.
Britain has felt the need to keep an armed presence in Ireland throughout the time it has ruled there, not from fear of invasion from outside but because of opposition from inside. Both Bloody Sundays (don't forget the first one) were the result.
"My suspicion is that it is the present version of events that has been creatively written......"
Now how did I know that, whatever the report came up with, there would be flag-wavers popping up everywhere saying similar.
Jim Carroll