BREXIT: Britain’s ignorance of Ireland is leading it blindly into crisis

Britain’s ignorance of Ireland is leading it blindly into crisis 

by Naomi O’Leary 

(Bella Caledonia, 4 Dec 2017)

[...] That many British people do not know basic facts about Ireland was not news to many Irish people. We commonly trade anecdotes about it. Some tell of their shock at discovering, on their first day of university or in a job in England, that their peers do not know that Ireland is an independent country, or that Northern Ireland is part of the UK. Others recall the puzzlement of British visitors to Dublin realising they need to change their Sterling into Euros.

The story I tell is my realisation during the Brexit campaign that not only have the British public been failed by their education, but that this ignorance extends into the ranks of those upon whom the most prestigious educations in the world have been lavished. Privately schooled Oxbridge graduates who make their living in politics and who can chat confidently about the geopolitics of North Africa or Eastern Europe were not embarrassed to confess to me they knew nothing of Northern Ireland, and to ask me to remind them one more time which side was which. [...]

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