GB News finds another Irish Dope – Aideen McQueen

While channel-hopping through foreign TV stations, I always pause when I hear an Irish accent. Surprisingly, I found an Irish woman appearing as a guest on the GB news channel. The channel’s primary purpose is the promotion of British nationalism and sometimes jingoism. Accordingly, when Irish guests appear by invitation, it must be due to their support of British nationalism, which turned out to be the case. However, the public display of Irish ignorance due to a half-assed education I find deeply troubling.

Headliners is a show hosted by Simon Evans that brings on various guests to discuss the issues behind the news headlines that are about to appear in the following day’s newspapers. On the edition of 30 December 24, his guests were two comedians, one British, Josh Howie and an Irish woman, Aideen McQueen.

One topic headlined ‘Labour urged to drop Western-Centric science in school curriculum’ was introduced by Evans with the phrase, ‘the blood pressure is set to burst’. Howie responded, ‘this is the worst story we have had in a while’ and went on to list out all the Royal societies that seemed to support this woke nonsense. Both agreed that the suggestion was insane.

Evans then asks for McQueen’s opinion, introducing her as ‘a person with education experience’.

Transcript

McQueen: I actually like this I think it is a very interesting way of exploring it. I think you’re a bit hasty in condemning it because we don’t actually know what they are doing or how they’re introducing it. I mean I think it is very..

Evans interjects: Only condemn it after it has become law

McQueen: I mean it is very interesting to study how certain people or certain countries advanced more than others like China, was very advanced, they had China vessels and so they didn’t bother really with glass. Whereas the west hadn’t been advanced when it did get glass, you know, optical sciences came up. I mean you can take Ireland and Scotland. Ireland was a very catholic country, everything was in the Latin mass, nothing was in the vernacular. You know Scotland embraced Methodism therefore, they had the mass in than English and then Education thrived. The things Scottish people invented as a result Penicillin, telephones, steam engines, raincoat, golf, tarmacadam and the hypodermic needle ironically. But Ireland invented the crack.

Evans interrupts: ‘that very interesting but the point is that is the history of science, that’s a separate subject. That’s not the same subject as actually learning science’.

In a nutshell, McQueen contends that Ireland invented the craic because we had a Latin mass, but because the Scots had their mass in English, it allowed them to have a better education system.

What utter drivel from an uneducated gobshite.

Most people living in Ireland were subjected to racism, brutality, poverty, and discrimination by the British colonial power for centuries. The British banned education, leaving the Irish to establish and operate schools in secret, known to history as hedge schools. Catholics were banned from receiving a foreign education, but many wealthy families still managed to send their children abroad. The Education Act of 1695 was followed by a whole slew of discriminatory acts known as the penal laws. See a list of major ones below.

How can anyone who has been through the Irish education system leave it bearing such utterly ignorant attitudes toward Irish history? Irish educators boast the Irish education system is one of the best in the world. That is total nonsense, as evinced by the many graduates who express opinions based on little or no knowledge or the teaching of falsehoods.

The Chinese had glass 2,500 years ago, with their first known text on optical theory appearing in the fourth century BC. The founding of geometrical optical theory is credited to the ancient Greek geometer Euclid at around the start of the third century BC. The Islamic world had an optical theory, starting with Al-Kindi AD 801–873. His work inspired European scholars.

What McQueen is alluding to is the invention of clear or colourless glass but does not know that was a medieval invention credited to Angelo Barovier. Clear glass is often thought to be one of the key materials behind the scientific revolution. Armed with that information, McQueen falsely tries to make out that because the Chinese had pottery, they had no need to use glass and missed out on having their own scientific revolution. That argument falls flat when one considers that Europe also had pottery. Even a century before Barovier’s clear glass, the Venetian crystal workers guild established regulations to produce ‘glass disks for the eyes’. Today, we call these corrective lenses, and the medieval invention of spectacles is one of the most enduring and important inventions.

Every scholar in medieval and modern Europe could communicate through Latin. It was the universal language of the continent. The scientific revolution occurred in Europe, a multilingual continent because scholars could easily collaborate and exchange ideas using a universal language.

The Scots did not invent Penicillin. It was discovered by a Scot, Alexander Flemming. Other than publish a paper about its antibacterial properties, Flemming did nothing else. A multinational team of scientists working at Oxford University in England did all the work to invent a process to make the drug.

The hypodermic needle was around in the 17^th century, but it is an Irish physician, Francis Rynd, who is generally credited with the first successful injection in 1844 at the Meath Hospital in Dublin.

Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone. Using skulduggery and contacts in the US Patent Office, he stole Elisha Gray’s ideas and those of Antonio Meucci.

While Scotland enjoyed the financial income and benefits of colonialism, the Irish were on the receiving end. The Irish were subjected to mass murder, land theft, over-taxation, economic sabotage, sectarianism, official corruption, ethnic cleansing, genocide and the full gamut of the worst crimes against humanity. All perpetrated by the English, Scottish, and Welsh.

Grow up and learn your country’s real history.

Here is a list of the most prominent list of the penal laws that the British administrations imposed on the Catholic Irish.

Exclusion of Catholics from holding public office such as a Judge, MP, solicitor, Jurist, barrister, civil servant, sheriff, or town councillor.
No Catholic could vote or be elected to office.
A ban was imposed upon Catholics from owning land.
Catholics could not lease land for longer than thirty-one years and the rent was to equal two-thirds of the yearly value of the land.
Catholics were not allowed to hold arms nor be members of the armed forces nor own a horse worth more than £5.
If a Catholic landholder died, his estate could not be passed to the eldest son unless that son was a Protestant. Otherwise, it was to be shared by all the surviving sons.
A ban imposed upon intermarriage between Catholics and Protestants.
Catholic could not be an orphan’s guardian.
Catholics were barred from living in many provincial towns.
Catholic clergy were to be registered and required to take an oath of loyalty, but friars, monks, hierarchy and Jesuits were to be exiled.
No cleric could wear distinguishing clothes.
Places of worship could not have a steeple nor display a cross.
Catholics and dissenters [Methodists, Presbyterians etc.] were required to pay tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland which was the Established Church.
Catholics could not establish schools or send their children abroad for education.