I see Eoghan Harris has decided that the centenary of the Croke Park massacre is the ideal time to uncork a defence of the Tans - on the grounds that Michael Collins was hardly any saint, now, was he?
From the 1916 centenary to now, what’s been striking about Ireland's official commemorations is their scrupulous avoidance of triumphalism. The focus has been so squarely on what was lost, you could be forgiven for thinking nothing was won.
And yet despite this rigid official sobriety - bordering on timidity - the line from the fourth estate is consistently that Ireland is only a few balaclavas away from another anti-English insurgence.
‘Tragically died’. https://twitter.com/FineGael/status/1330179162141814787
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