My family long avoided, or deflected, our Irish history, until I confronted them with a copy of
The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan. I moved on to
The Man Who Made Ireland and de Valera's biography rather quickly. You want to call Tim Pat a liar but it's hard to. I dunno.
Quote:
And the Auld Triangle
Went jingle-jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal.