Hidden History-Tonight

[dcfcsteve]

In order to teach it, the teacher needs to know it.
If it's some poor mug from up the country, who learns what they must in order to get a teaching job, then gets sent down to West Cork, they might have a hard time telling the local kids what their history is.

Fair point. Though they could just make it up....

[Block G Raptor]

If it had been the burning of Dublin, I'm sure it would've featured more highly.....

Syllabus aside - I do think schools/history teachers have an unwritten duty to educate their kids on local history. I was lucky wnough to have a history teacher who was happy to 'free-style' onto a lot of this - but then Derry did have a fairly central role in the start of the Troubles, so he wasn't straying too far....

Totally agree, the teacher I had in 6th class taught us a lot of stuff about the troubles that deffo was NOT on the sylabus he certainly helped to water the seeds of republicanism that my parents (moderatly republican) had planted in me. Led me to become very Republican in adulthood without doubt
also still have a huge interest in reading Irish History

[hamish]

My late father was in the old IRA up Kildare way and himself and his colleagues nearly got the bejasus shot out of them one night by the tans back then, We've still got a medal he received from that organisation........kind of an old boys presentation.

[Block G Raptor]

Please except my humblest and heartfelt apologies for the grave wrong I've done you

Ay s'pose its time to forgive and forget