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The teaching of subjects such as history and geography in Ireland has been closely associated with the concepts of religious and national identity since the island was conquered by the Tudors in the sixteenth century. Despite Ireland’s close proximity to the British mainland, the English crown’s position remained insecure due to intermittent outbreaks of Irish separatism and concerns about the loyalty of its native population, who were reluctant to convert from Catholicism to Anglicanism. As a result, reinforcing the crown’s position through cultural assimilation emerged as a key preoccupation of English policy in Ireland until the twentieth century.
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Griffin, K. (2015). Resisting Redefinition: The Portrayal of Northern Irish Identity in Ulster Television’s Schools Output, 1970–1977. In: Franklin, I., Chignell, H., Skoog, K. (eds) Regional Aesthetics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137532831_13
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