1066 and the Peace Process
Jan 30th, 2007 | By admin | Category: IrelandGladstone “spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, so that as he grew older and older Gladstone became angrier and angrier, and grander and grander”. Sellar and Yeatman’s 1066 and All That springs from a British imperialist world view of 1930, but its humour captures a sense of the English misunderstanding of most things, particularly of Ireland.
Mr Blair is now in his final weeks as Prime Minister and is…