Who fears to speak of the Republic?

The British occupation of Ireland down the centuries was once seen as exploitative and repressive. However, according to “responsible” historians, this British presence in Ireland should be seen as an act of benign generosity. We should accept that the United Irishmen were fanatical bigots and the 1798 rebellion was a sectarian blood bath, that the famine was simply an accident of nature and that the resultant human catastrophe was not the fault of those wh...