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1 day agoBritain and Ireland's relationship examined: The British 'take the Irish for granted, whereas they are obsessed with us. We don't remember the past and they cannot forget it'
The intensely close but complex relationship between Britain and Ireland is one that a British ambassador to Ireland observed in a 1977 dispatch: the British "take the Irish for granted, whereas (the Irish) are obsessed with us. We don't remember the past and they cannot forget it." If we think a lot about that relationship, one might think that there would be no need for a book like Philip Stephens's These Divided Isles. Too often we don't think deeply about our relationship with Britain.
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