Oliver Callan questions British comics on Irish history and current affairs and finds general response is obliviousness
When Oliver Cromwell’s forces sacked the Irish town of Drogheda in 1649 and massacred its inhabitants the comedy potential seemed limited. Thousands perished and that was just the start of a military campaign that wiped out much of Ireland’s population before Cromwell returned to England.
Four centuries later, however, those dark events and other landmarks of Irish history have been mined for humour – and the joke is on the British.
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