Why do British people know so little of their colonial past when it's all available on Google?

Not sure i agree there bubbly it's not something they like talking about in my experience anyway but maybe that's just my experience, i accept the kids part though i didn't know that so thanks for educating me there that's a good thing they are doing that as difficult as it must be.

Why do rabid anti British IRA heads start threads on colonialism and fail to mention that all countries that could colonise others did.

Get over yourselves.

We've moved on.

Dyson are advertising a hairdryer in "Prussian Blue"

Next year they will probably have a hoover in "East India Company Red"

People don't teach their children about the shameful aspects of history. Then in a couple of generations we repeat history. It's not just the Brits. Look at the popularity of Sinn Fein and the Far left Trotskyist parties among young Irish people. Most of them have no concept of what went on in the troubles and think Sinn Fein stand for free houses for all and that was just 30 years ago. As to the mass genocides Trotsky engineered during the Russian Revolution and Civil War they all think Trotsky was some sort of nice fluffy economist dude.

The Government elected by the English is ultimately responsible for what goes on in NI. Two sides were going at each other for several decades under their watch. If that were the case for me, I'd want to know what is going on.

Add it to the list of things you never knew. I never said Ireland, I said Irish settlers or emigrants

And yet England was also targetted by attacks as part of the Troubles and they all know who the IRA are.

It is entirely distant to them.

This isn't about what you said or even think. The question was why don't the English learn about their colonial past or words to that effect and the answer is because times, attitudes , beliefs and people were different then and when you spend too much time looking into the dark past you won't like what you'll find. In any research I ever carried out on Britain's imperial past discovering Irish participation in that is unavoidable. The OP's question was virtue signaling in the first place, The British empire was so bad so by inference Ireland and by extension of that the Irish people were so good, no we weren't. An earlier commentator asked of the OP how much of Irish history do they know beyond a certain point and that's a very valid question. We ought not to expect anyone to apologize for the blood on their hands until we have cleaned ours first.

I’m giving it as an example of where their lack of historical awareness caught them out. You think the British have a good knowledge of their history and Empire, fair enough, I’m just saying in my personal experience it’s not been the case.

And haha I don’t give a **** about what you think of my boards account

Oh most definitely, it’s certainly not the case with every Briton, just a preponderance of them

Very true and SF's position in the opinion polls shows at least one third of our voters have forgotten Ireland's recent history.

Haha what research?? How can one talk of a general quality evident in a general populations without engaging in generalities? Should we interview every single person in a populace before we make assumptions about them? No of course not, because that would be unnecessary and a massive waste of time.

You're here shiteing on about research when you’ve said done absolutely nothing to either support or refute the point made by the OP. All talk, backing up nothing.

The president of our country has written an article in a national newspaper making a similar point. He’s just another lazy generalist clearly. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/michael-d-higgins-empire-shapes-our-past-and-present-relationship-with-britain-1.4482373

The idea we’re discussing obviously resonates with plenty of people and their experience or it wouldn’t come up so much. So rather than squawking about what other people are saying how about you actually add something to the thread, either in support of or against the OP, with something to back it up. Or are too lazy to do your “research”?

It's not like I provided what I claimed to be an exhaustive list or something, just gave a couple of relevant recent examples of where Britons lack of historical awareness has let them down.

Anyway this seems like a waste of time, don't know why I bothered - I'll revert to your position and just say you're wrong (I'll follow your lead and won't provide any basis for why that is).