Disliked{quote} ''Any version of NI will contain gross distortions'' - sorry I don't agree with that. What matters is whether that person has the intellectual honesty to accept basic irrefutable historical facts, that at the very least is the starting point for serious discussion. I have spent considerable hours debating this kind of stuff online with people who genuinely espouse 'facts' which can be demonstratively proven false by a single google search or a basic reading of the CAIN archives, such is the degree of misinformation on this subject. The truth...Ignored
NI is more complex than people imagine. It's history originates beyond the borders of Ulster.
I'm a bit of both to be honest. Raised in ROI, Grandfather married a local Catholic girl. He was part of the British establishment and his father was as well, in India and Ireland. A right bloody mix.