DELIVERED BY Tyneside Irish Cultural Society
The Roman Empire and it’s successors – religious, political, social and cultural have always received the warm approval of history and modern opinion. Even here, in The North, where the Roman experience was military occupation, failed conquest and attempted genocide, the heirs of Rome in the Latin speaking elites of religion and public school civil-service government have continued Agricola’s work. It is manifest that the Romans were a military-industrial imperialist cultural project that attempted the total subjugation of Northumberland/Bernicia, and many other lands. Happily they failed, but rather than accept this, they continue to dress up in purple and pretend that their “civilisation” defeated us “barbarians”. Rather than accept truth, they continue to deny the victory of their colonial victims.
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