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Re: Spectacular Bookshelf Performance

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From: Stewart Pinkerton
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 09:12
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On Sat, 07 May 2005 10:35:35 GMT, donald@pearce.uk.com (Don Pearce)
wrote:

>On Sat, 07 May 2005 09:59:21 GMT, "Tim Martin"
><tim2718281@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Don Pearce" <donald@pearce.uk.com> wrote in message
>>news:427f84e5.6475484@news.plus.net...
>>
>>> Probably because the foreign Irish aren't as well versed in history.
>>
>>I sometimes think that people who buy books are as gullible as those who buy
>>hi-fi.  People have a stunning capacity for believing nonsense.
>>
>> For what it's worth ,my advice to anyone interested in learning about Irish
>>history is:
>>
>>1) Search out books on Irish history written by Irish historians working at
>>Irish universities.  That's the best way I can think of  to ensure that the
>>books are based on factual Irish history.
>>
>
>Disagree here. What you will get in any history book - particularly
>one written by someone with a personal agenda or interest will always
>be a partial account. Read books from both sides, discard 90% of each
>as nonsense and you have half a chance of getting something solid.

Bingo!

-- 

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering
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From: Stewart Pinkerton <patent3@dircon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Spectacular Bookshelf Performance
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