Readers on Jennifer Horgan’s article about the consequences of ignoring the Anglo-Irish relationship, past and present
Re Jennifer Horgan’s article (When British schools ignore Irish history, is it any wonder Brexit is such a mess?, 3 October), I was a pupil in a grammar school in Belfast from 1963 to 1971, as an English Catholic whose father was moved to Northern Ireland by his employer. I experienced a crash course in Irish history, in two alternative versions: one in the book “we” used and an alternative version to use in exams because “the examiner would be a Protestant”.
In spite of a tricky occasion on the playground after we learned about Cromwell’s army burning down a church full of people, I truly value the insights I gained and then built on. History has at least two versions, and truth must be searched for. More lessons followed. My friends were shot at on Bloody Sunday, just as I was returning to England.
