Michael Moynihan: The conveyor belt of history offers fascinating insights of Leeside life

You don't need a PhD in history or a degree to be a historian, you can go to the archives and do the work, writes Michael Moynihan

Shift workers leaving the Ford Factory at Cork’s Marina in 1929. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive/Ref 331A

Every couple of years there seems to be another attack on history.

History in schools, I mean. This is unfortunate, because not knowing one’s history leads to unpleasant levels of ignorance. Events in certain countries on either side of us show what that ignorance can lead to, or sink to.