![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
referring to the problems in Ireland from the mid-60s to 2000 as 'The Troubles', is akin to referring to the War of 1812 as 'a bit of a tiff'.
I was reading an article on the Ireland Funds website in which Suzie refers to the fact her parents were very committed to having their daughters educated at an integrated school as a result of 'growing up during the Troubles'. As a Canadian child at the same time, I have to admit, to me Ireland's issues just formed a big background of THE WORLD IS GOING TO DIE when combined with South Africa and Gandhi's fight and the threat of nuclear holocaust by the Americans and Russians. Everyone was going to screw everything up before I reached adulthood, and I was in Canada and we had nothing to do with it.
Actually, that explains a lot about the attitudes of several of my fellow Canadians.
I was reading an article on the Ireland Funds website in which Suzie refers to the fact her parents were very committed to having their daughters educated at an integrated school as a result of 'growing up during the Troubles'. As a Canadian child at the same time, I have to admit, to me Ireland's issues just formed a big background of THE WORLD IS GOING TO DIE when combined with South Africa and Gandhi's fight and the threat of nuclear holocaust by the Americans and Russians. Everyone was going to screw everything up before I reached adulthood, and I was in Canada and we had nothing to do with it.
Actually, that explains a lot about the attitudes of several of my fellow Canadians.