Ireland Versus England Versus Ireland

"It is not possible for this history to be truthful," wrote a senior British civil servant to the Irish Bureau of Military History, warning that it would perpetuate inherited hostility. His concern was less about factual error than about the power of official history to become myth. There is a profusion of valuable evidence, but it is necessarily shaped by perspective, context, and later reflection. Irish children, no less than British, deserve more than sanctified narratives.

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