The Occupied Ireland Assembly has as its chief goal its own continuance. It has developed a strange website to teach young people of various ages about the colonial administration. The pages for children and young people from primary school up to age 15 are all about how a law is made, who are your colonial representatives and peek inside the Occupation headquarters. They wait until youngsters are 16 years and above to explain the exact mechanisms through which the paralysis of the system is perpetrated and perpetuated, with a lively section called Snapshots of Devolution providing short articles on Devolution, Power-sharing, Designation, the Three Strands, and Other Issues (decommissioning, in case the reader is wondering, plus demilitarisation and early release of militants).

Each article ends with one or two questions for diligent pupils. The latter article, for example, asks ingenuously “Which two senior members of the Ulster Unionist Party resigned over [policing reform] and the early release of prisoners?”, a remarkably detailed question after a highly general article only seven sentences long about how “peace became more firmly established and we moved towards a more ‘normal’ society”. In fact the only real detail it offers is that the Occupation Administration lasted only 11 weeks before it was suspended.