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dimension in both the present and future curriculum. The extent to which an Irish dimension
is taught will vary between different contexts, but the rationale and way in which it is brought
into the curriculum is of more importance than the amount that is taught. At this point it is
appropriate to conclude by repeating the following reference made at the start of this thesis:
… Rather than the manufactured clash of civilisations we need to concentrate on the
slow working together of cultures that overlap, borrow from one another, and live
together in far more interesting ways than any abridged or inauthentic mode of
understanding can allow. (Said, 2003, xxii).