Who Started the Northern Irish Troubles? The Spark of 1966 The story that the IRA began the Troubles for freedom’s sake collapses under the facts:…
Category: Top 5 Most Untrue “Facts” Everyone Believes About Irish History
5. Noel Browne’s Mother and Child Scheme
4. The 1937 Constitution was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church
3. The Irish state was misogynistic
2. Irish Neutrality during WWII
1. The Troubles in Northern Ireland started to gain freedom from Britain.
UK – Becomes a Democracy in 1973
In Northern Ireland, the British government introduced “one man, one vote” for local elections in April 1969, but it was fully implemented in time for…
False Flag Operations in UK
List of loyalist false flag operations at the start of the Troubles in the United Kingdom Date Group Responsible Attack Claimed Perpetrator at the…
Loyalist False Flag Operations
At the very start of the Northern Irish Troubles — roughly 1966 to the early 1970s — the UVF weren’t the only ones dabbling in…
List of Loyalist False Flag Operations – Start of the Troubles
Date Group Responsible Attack Claimed Perpetrator at the Time Later-Confirmed Truth Jun-66 UVF Murder of John Scullion (Catholic civilian) IRA internal feud UVF sectarian killing…
Myth #2 Irish Neutrality – Revisionist Bunk
Most so-called Irish history commentators aren’t engaged in revisionism—they’re engaged in outright fabrication. Revisionism once meant stripping away propaganda to arrive at a clearer, more…
Myth #3 Ireland Hates Women
The idea that post-independence Ireland was ruled over by a cabal of rosary-clutching misogynists is not just wrong—it’s historically illiterate. It is the sort of…
Myth #4: Post-Independence Ireland was a Theocracy Ruled from Rome
Calling this a “myth” is far too generous. It’s a brazen falsehood—one that survives solely by burying inconvenient facts and fabricating a caricature of the…
Myth #5 Noel Browne’s Mother and Child Scheme
The top five myths of Irish history which Irish People believe #5 The Mother and Child Scheme – Foundation Myth of Irish Atheism The failure…
