Jokingly asked my daughter if she learned anything interesting in school today; "yeah, history was good, we were learning about the good Friday agreement"what? Really? Pretty impressed with the decision to include this in the syllabus.
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Posted by Margrave75
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History’s a little too kind to Trimble in my opinion
Nitpicking here, but Hume wasn’t elected to the NI Assembly, which didn’t exist until 1973,and didn’t really govern the place until the GFA. He was elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. And it implies decommissioning happened in 1994, when it was an issue that the IRA wouldn’t do it up to 2001, 94 was just a ceasefire
I don’t think they should be sanitising bigots especially at this remove.
It’s probably the most significant single event in the last 50 years of Irish history. I’d be shocked if it wasn’t on the syllabus.
So hold on, they just got to describe the peace process and the North’s history up until that point without mentioning SF. No mention of Adams, just completely erased despite the all night negotiations being key to getting the IRA to decommission.
Holy fucking revisionism batman! I’d expect to see this level of denial and manipulation in a Japanese textbook. But seemingly it’s done here too. Long live Emperor Hirohito!
Our curriculum is fairly decent like.
Of course it’s in the syllabus it’s a really important part of our history, it was in my school books back in to 2000s too
Why would it not be included in the syllabus?
1994 wasn’t decommissioning, it was a ceasefire during peace talks. The IRA didn’t decommission their weapons until 2005.
I think this is a poorly researched piece and has a lot of misinformation. Not great when you consider this is probably about the most significant event in Irish history since 1921.
What surprised you about that?
They really ought to put the Magdalene laundries/industrial schools/mother and baby homes on the leaving cert history syllabus. I did my leaving in 2018, did history including irish history 1945-1990 and it wasn’t mentioned
I remember this being in history books for junior cert back in 2003. Maybe not in as much detail but it was definitely in there.
What book is this?
Trimble took a punt, and he paid the price. I’ve never known why he went in for it. It was brave of him to do what he did.
Of course you know MI6 have files on them all…..here you should sign this or else these pics will find a way into newspaper.
Hume signed GFA then walked away to leave Seamus Mallon to deal with the shit show.
So… technically the Good Friday Agreement isn’t on the syllabus. The current history curriculum was published in 1999, when we were optimistic about what the GFA meant for the future, but didn’t know yet.
The curriculum has a strand called “Politics, conflict and change” which has a suggestion to cover something about Northern Ireland, but leaves it open tomthe teacher (or the book publisher in this case) to choose what specifically.
If you look at the bottom of the page the strand unit they are covering with this is actually even more vague “stories from the lives of people in the past” which could be used to teach thousands of different topics.
The curriculum is actually very open ended, which comes in handy when they leave it 25 years to bring in a new one and new developments need to be included.
https://www.curriculumonline.ie/primary/curriculum-areas/social-environmental-and-scientific-education/history/