Tariq Bey’s Reviews > We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland > Status Update

Requiem mass, finally getting to the catholic kidfuckers

Jews in Dublin from Akmijan, guess how they were treated

Ballymun projects apparently tried to do things better & differently but failed miserably

Commercialization of Rising 50th anniversary, dhows the direction Eire is going. De Valera's still around somehow

Difficulties in Distinguishing a culture in an increasingly cosmopolitan world

"It must needs scandals come"

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A brothers story - 'before, he had always been pushing for more pay, or looking for easier work, or something. But now he didn't mind getting the toughest job - and the dirtiest - and he as always willing to change his shift to suit someone else'

& this is meant to be a good thing ? Ofc the church is pushing for obedience & acquiescence

Brothers engrained with missionary attitude & English ideas "imagining themselves as missionaries from a mother country that was also mother church"

Ireland had educational aparthied. School was expensive, upper middle class kids could afford secondary school while the poorer ones could only get primary education. This changed in 1966 when minister of education Donogh O'Malley abruptly announced secondary education would be free, forcing the church & the rest of the governments hands

Christian Brothers schools taught militant nationalism & the story of the long history of oppression to the people of Ireland, helping to plant the seeds of the rising & independence movement.