I’m upset at myself.

I’ve this presentation to arrange on The Irish Famine and, extra importantly, the occasions resulting in it and the implications it had… and I learn lots of literature concerning the Irish Famine… however I solely simply realised that I went manner too deep on “The Troubles” and never sufficient on the precise subject with my notes.

So, I do know quite a bit if questions come up concerning the battle and why there aren’t sufficient historic texts on the famine… and I do know quite a bit concerning the sloppy work that some historians did, particularly due to the revisionist faculty of thought…

And I discover all of it extremely fascinating even when the precise subject of my presentation isn’t about any of this.

So, I spent many of the previous two weeks making ready these sources and getting my notes achieved… When it got here to the precise presentation and sorta attempting to suit every part right into a ten to twelve-minute “talk”, I seen that lots of it misses the mark. Loads of the stuff I examine now isn’t speculated to be within the presentation.

Either manner, I’ve lots of notes now… and I began making ready a presentation that fully misses the mark of what I used to be speculated to do. So, I’ll most likely spend tomorrow working these notes into one thing new.

I’ll most likely lead with a query about Great Britain’s duty – after which I’ll speak about History, Economics, Ireland’s local weather and placement, in addition to Capitalism and the Potato because the “main crop” for many of the inhabitants.

Eventually, I’d speak concerning the penalties… and ultimately, I’ll most likely finish with how historians have been self-censoring lots of their work due to the revisionist faculty of thought.

Since I learn quite a bit about The Troubles and never the precise penalties of The Famine, I’ll have to work much more on that… and actually, for at this time, I’m achieved. I’ll determine this out tomorrow.

To be frank, I ought to have paid extra consideration to the precise subject of the presentation is… and what sources truly have been required as literature for these. I learn perhaps 500 pages in whole (nicely, ten totally different recordsdata with about 40 to 60 pages every) for this and didn’t realise till simply now that every one of that is an excessive amount of for ten minutes of time allotted to my presentation. I’ve to chop my notes down drastically after which see how a lot I can speak about in ten minutes.

It might be a problem and an enormous headache however I’m an enormous fool for not solely engaged on the mistaken subject… but in addition solely realising how huge of a subject I used to be studying up on with out truly realising how little time I’ve for the presentation.

Sorry concerning the rant. I’m upset at myself, that’s all.

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