The Irish nation is particularly prone to believing in historical myths. Falsehoods appear with such frequency in the country’s media and are never subjected to critical analysis that the stand as evidence of the nation’s cultural biases. Historical fallacies are mainly a product of political interference in the education curriculum, where important evidence has been…

Dear Mr Salvioli, When miscarriages of justice occurred in Ireland, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties was strangely silent. Contrast their behaviour to the achievements of the National Council for Civil Liberties, now called ‘Liberty’, in Britain, which has been instrumental in exposing miscarriages of justice and in the release of innocent people from jail.…

During the second decade of the twenty-first century, under the rule of the Taoiseach/Prime minister Micheál Martin, children born to a cohort of mothers suffer from infant mortality rates that are multiples that of the average. High infant mortality rates present in a previous era of Irish history were referred to by the Taoiseach as…

All is set to go for Sunday’s  history seminar with particular reference to the Tuam Children’s Home. The event is subject to COVID restrictions and the number of attendees will be limited, be early. Sunday 4th of October, Harbour Hotel, New Docks, Galway 2:30 to 4:30pm. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.

Historians Silence on False History The Tuam Children’s Home or to give it its full title, St. Mary’s Home, Tuam was not exclusively a mother and baby home. It functioned as a refuge for mothers and their children and abandoned and unwanted children which included disabled children. It is called a mother and baby home…

This documentary financed by the Canadian government provides a good overview of the outcomes due to our cognitive biases combined with the democracy of the internet and social media. The one thing the documentary makers neglect to do is explain what a cognitive bias is. It is a systematic error in thinking that impacts one’s…

Poor quality thinking is much in evidence these days, especially in the media, both traditional and non-traditional. One recent exemplar is the present day re-interpretation of John Lennon’s song, ‘Imagine’, mostly by the younger generations. For them, it is a ‘terrible song’, ‘an absolutely horrible song’, ‘a shit song’, ‘garbage’ and more. All these young…

It has been called a holocaust, mass murder of babies with tales of abuse by a small but influential cabal of the country’s axe grinders. What does it say about Ireland’s  historians when the country’s most decorated historian is not a historian and the taxpayer, a turkey that has allowed itself to be plucked of…