The Irish government insisted the 150th anniversary of the Great Famine was appropriate to be taught in US schools, it has emerged. The Irish Embassy in Washington had monitored a row over whether it should be included in curricula designed to deal with genocides, such as the Holocaust and Armenian massacres. A document released as part of the State Archives reveals that Irish officials remained informed as a heated exchange of letters played out between New York governor George Pataki and Britain’s ambassador to the US. A controversial article in The Washington Post was also an element of the row....
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