Irish history in our schools....lies still being told??

[Bennyton]

Despite the idea that you all think of me as a rabid Republican I raised my children in America where they did not get any propaganda from either side regarding this little island.
The only thing that they constantly got was "Stay away from alcohol". It used to make me angry and now I just go, meh.

Of course now they have all become interested in their "roots" and to a child have become socialist republicans. Religion is the big thing here or was. I'm a Catholic but none of my children are practicing Catholics two have converted to other faiths and the other three are agnostic.

Epic fail on my part I reckon.

Its not just your kids, the catholic church ensured its own demise through its own actions and lack there of, I'll give the whole organisation another 50 years..

Your kids can be good people without being Catholics.


As for the history thing, in the Leaving cert most classes will avoid the war of independence/the 1916 rising, and select the land acts/home rule whenever possible,

 

[Over and Out]

Awful smell of West Brit from this thread.

 

[an liathroid beag]

What sort of lies are the children being told in the schols these days? Is the '16 Rising still being sold as one of the greatest occasions in Irish history rather than the comedic opera that it was from start to finish.

Have they ever been told of some of the horrific atrocities that occurred during the Civil War?

The Victor always writes the History---I am sure that a different perspective of the Vietnam war is taught to Vietnamese schoolchildren than is taught to their American counterparts---likewise Irish schoolchildren heard of Kilmichael but not Ballyseedy and Boulavogue but not Scoulabogue --but that changes with the passage of time and generations

 

[macuísle]

The Victor always writes the History---I am sure that a different perspective of the Vietnam war is taught to Vietnamese schoolchildren than is taught to their American counterparts---likewise Irish schoolchildren heard of Kilmichael but not Ballyseedy and Boulavogue but not Scoulabogue --but that changes with the passage of time and generations

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Talk about your epic fail. My children were taught in a variety of schools what an monumental cluster fuck Vietnam was from beginning to end. The really interesting thing about Americans is they have memories of a brain damaged goldfish. The horrors of Vietnam are visited on Afghanistan.

There are bonuses however. For instance you can't get a set of nails or a kick ass pedicure anywhere in that country without a vietnamese "refugee" servicing you. I'm anxious to see what the Afghans "refugees" will bring to the table.

 

[an liathroid beag]

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Talk about your epic fail. My children were taught in a variety of schools what an monumental cluster fuck Vietnam was from beginning to end. The really interesting thing about Americans is they have memories of a brain damaged goldfish. The horrors of Vietnam are visited on Afghanistan.

There are bonuses however. For instance you can't get a set of nails or a kick ass pedicure anywhere in that country without a vietnamese "refugee" servicing you. I'm anxious to see what the Afghans "refugees" will bring to the table.

Really! Did they tell them of the broken promises to the Vietnamese after WW II The free elections that were promised, but the Americans reneged on when they realised that Ho Chi Min would win these, the support for the French when they attempted to recolonise the country?

 

[Bennyton]

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Talk about your epic fail. My children were taught in a variety of schools what an monumental cluster fuck Vietnam was from beginning to end. The really interesting thing about Americans is they have memories of a brain damaged goldfish. The horrors of Vietnam are visited on Afghanistan.

There are bonuses however. For instance you can't get a set of nails or a kick ass pedicure anywhere in that country without a vietnamese "refugee" servicing you. I'm anxious to see what the Afghans "refugees" will bring to the table.

Jesus thats very British, going out and fighting pointless war's and getting pissed off when those people follow you home...

 

[Patmull]

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Talk about your epic fail. My children were taught in a variety of schools what an monumental cluster fuck Vietnam was from beginning to end. The really interesting thing about Americans is they have memories of a brain damaged goldfish. The horrors of Vietnam are visited on Afghanistan.

There are bonuses however. For instance you can't get a set of nails or a kick ass pedicure anywhere in that country without a vietnamese "refugee" servicing you. I'm anxious to see what the Afghans "refugees" will bring to the table.

Macuishle- There is a big difference between Viet Nam and Afghanistan--One has jungles. You are right about Americans--they keep doing the same stupid things and expect a different result. Michelle Bachman has said the hurricane was because God was mad that the deficit was too high.

 

[Dr. Aaoouh]

What sort of lies are the children being told in the schools these days? Is the '16 Rising still being sold as one of the greatest occasions in Irish history rather than the comedic opera that it was from start to finish.

You should THANK GOD for the 1916 Rising, because if it hadn't happened, you'd still be speaking English and your economy would still be under the control of foreigners.

Oh wait. Never mind.

 

[an liathroid beag]

You should THANK GOD for the 1916 Rising, because if it hadn't happened, you'd still be speaking English and your economy would still be under the control of foreigners.

Oh wait. Never mind.

 

[kh1152]

Hey Fuck You!!!

Without independence we wouldn't have seen the greatest emigration of Irish sons and daughters since the Famine!!!!

No!! Not the 50's!!!

No, I don't mean the million and a half in the 80's either....

Jasus.....