Quote from: JWare on 27 December, 2022, 11:03:20 AMSaying that the popular perception of Irish History has holes in it you could march the New Model Army through, would be putting mildly.
I don't want to derail the thread, but there's no end to Ireland's denial of her own imperial past.
I've been studying the Irish regiments of the British Army, and what the Irish redcoats got up to in India is nothing to be proud of.
I believe there was some historically tone-deaf gesture a few years back regarding the massacres perpetrated in 1857-8, and for some arse-backwards reason India apologised to Ireland.
I teach history. God knows why, because nobody listens.