BMcCann

One-time teacher of history in Dublin, relocated to Belfast. PhD looking at pension claims of northern vets of Irish Rev. Here for history + education stuff.

[BMcCann @borricade]

@theirishstory @stibhan @PaddyMulroe Which means if ‘normal’ periodisation/categorisations used potentially gives a skewed narrative and impacts on perceptions of the success/failure of the revolutionary period, as well as its all-island impact.

[BMcCann @borricade]

@theirishstory @stibhan @PaddyMulroe By that token, the WoI classification also holds no water? Reflective of the fact that categorisations, periodisations all (perhaps inevitably) retrospectively driven by the experience of the 26.

[BMcCann @borricade]

@theirishstory @stibhan @PaddyMulroe A separate category? But coordinated from ‘the south’ and perceived as such by northern authorities. And then jettisoned from the official narrative of the independence struggle (see periodisation, reluctance to accept responsibility for spiralling violence in 1922 particularly).

[BMcCann @borricade]

@LucyABaxter Can discuss why it was produced (and by whom), why it was sent home, what does it tell us about why some think this event/person is significant, why you might disagree, what does such disagreement mean for us all. Good opportunity to try and understand the ‘other’ side.

[BMcCann @borricade]

@DrNightdub Arguably also glossed over the more sectarian element of violence within the six counties and around the border area as it sat uneasily with the independence narrative and republican ideology.

[BMcCann @borricade]

@DrNightdub Tellingly, in constructing and curating a foundation narrative, the southern state ignored the ‘failure’ of the independence struggle in the north as well as southern direction of (and involvement in) violence between the summers of 1921-2.

[The Irish Story @theirishstory]

Latest research from @DrNightdub. Amendments to the article posted below The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom – Addendum – The Irish Story: https://t.co/sIdzDXv0xA via @TheIrishStory

[BMcCann @borricade]

@DrNightdub @MuayCe They are very much ‘nominal’.

[BMcCann @borricade]

@MuayCe So sorry to hear this, Cécile. Thoughts with you and all your family. Safe travelling, and mind yourself.

[Jason Burke @JasonBurke87]

Really glad to get this one over the line. Exhibition opens officially from today at the @thelinenhall until 29th October. I’ve spent enough time looking at it - time for everyone else to have a go…

[BMcCann @borricade]

@RMcGreevy1301 @DrNightdub @mickthehack @JohnHyn64078259 There was never any real engagement with how to address unionists (particularly northern unionists) and (1) what their presence might mean for an all-island state and (2) if such a state was not possible what this might mean for northern nationalists.

[BMcCann @borricade]

@RMcGreevy1301 @DrNightdub @mickthehack @JohnHyn64078259 My point was that in the context of ‘the north’ republican violence risked provoking the kind of sectarian response which they wanted to avoid/considered themselves above. SF had been established to outflank the IPP on the issue of sovereignty.

[BMcCann @borricade]

@RMcGreevy1301 @mickthehack @JohnHyn64078259 with all that has meant since then. Arguably, this has led to a sequence of ‘performative’ irredentist actions and policies.

[BMcCann @borricade]

@RMcGreevy1301 @mickthehack @JohnHyn64078259 A significant issue, then, is residual southern guilt at ‘abandoning’ northern nationalists and being complicit (albeit with the British state carrying the main responsibility) in partitioning off the sectarian residue of Irish independence in NI…