IAN SINCLAIR examines the curious memory lapses across liberal media when it comes to British government crimes
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HOW should we remember the creation of the State of Northern Ireland — Jaegerbombs or petrol bombs? No telegram from the Queen, just £3 million from the Secretary of State to promote Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom.
Whatever way people intend to mark the occasion, one thing is indisputable: it was a creation of the British government born out of the struggle for Irish independence — and instead of being a new beginning for Ireland and its people, it has tragically kept division, intolerance, sectarianism and racism alive on the island of Ireland.
Ireland is arguably Britain’s first colony. Not an uninhabited land ripe for settler-colonisation but a nation with its own people, culture, language, mores and values.
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