https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-65748734 This is a hell of a read. I've been teaching about the empire recently and we touch on Ireland in a very general sense, skimming from things like Cromwell, famine to 1916 etc. But even watching Blue Lights and the recent interest in the wider region/history/divide etc. highlighted just how ignorant of so much of it I am. I'm guessing this story is a small piece of the big picture, but I wonder when/if the British nation will ever get to grips with the legacy of centuries of religious and political violence as an area of general knowledge for us non-Irish. Mo Mowlam, the Good Friday Agreement and the various bombings in the 90's are all things I remember to differing degrees, but they don't seem to fit together in my mind much. Is it different for you lot who remember the earlier conflicts? |  |