Sir, —I write to you in the hope that some of your readers may be ableto help me with some research that I am currently undertaking. I livein an area of County Waterford known as Sliabh gCua. To many, theSliabh gCua area consists of the civil parishes of Lickoran andSeskinane, plus small portions of bounding … Read more
Sir, —It would appear that my plea for an objective and rationalapproach to the possibility of ethnic cleansing in 1920s Ireland fellon deaf ears with Mr Donal Kennedy (letters, July/August 2008). I findhis totally unjustified and unwarranted attempt to claim my views asakin to Nazi racist ideology deeply offensive. I did findencouragement, however, in that … Read more
Sir, —I have a little footnote to add to your article on the Eucharistic Congress (HI 15.6, Nov./Dec. 2007). At the time, the country was in severe financial trouble and could not afford new tack for the Blue Hussars. My father, a tailor by trade, was commissioned to make many of the blue saddle-covers for … Read more
Sir, —The errors in Tony Canavan’s piece on the vandalised painting at Stormont (‘A papist painting for a Protestant parliament?’, HI 16.1, Jan./Feb. 2008) lead me to wonder whether he really researched the topic or rather acquired his information at second or third hand. The man who attacked the painting was Charles Forrester, not ‘Forster’. … Read more
Sir, —I think that Dr Hanley in his critique of the ‘Killings at Coolacrease’ programme protests too much when he writes that talk of ‘ethnic cleansing . . . should be banished from any serious discussions’ on what happened in Ireland in the 1920s. Some communities in the twentieth century leave their homeland when they … Read more