“Could any man really be as unlucky as Heginbotham had been?” he asks. No point in me answering. I went to a kafflick school in London in the early / mid 80s so our history syllabus probably focussed as much on Ireland as yours did
I was taught Cromwell was the leader, I learned on my own the real story, just cause i'm a bit of a history buff.
I went to a Catholic primary school, where we learnt a bit about Henry VIII and what a vain and wicked man he was, given to topping his wives and upsetting the dear old pope. Then we did him in my non religious secondary school and learned he was a strong leader who was determined to stop at nothing to beget an heir and so prevent his country from descending back into civil war. We didn't do Cromwell, but I liked the movie with Richard Harris.
yep that sounds about right. I left school believing that the single most important event of the 19th century was the forming of the chartist movement because they were led by Fergus O Connor "a fiery headed Irishman with a great gift for oratory". Presumably my mates in the non denominational school next door were learning about some Irish piss head who kept gobbing off at the Government of the day and eventually gave up and went back to Ireland. Either that or it didn't register on the syllabus!
Nah, the Chartists were on our syllabus. But the single most important event in the 19th C was apparently the repeal of the corn laws, whatever the **** that was (I expect Mick knows). I hated school.
They must have employed a few scotch brickies on that bloody great wall they built I suppose. Also, they built Kilburn High Road (true fact) so there must have been a good few paddies on that job.
