DEMOCRACY VS OLIGARCHY

Sir,—I refer to the seminar review, ‘Machnamh: Memory, History and Imagination’, by Colum Kenny (HI 31.1, Jan./Feb. 2023). Dr Kenny makes the following assertion in the second-last paragraph of his review: ‘The realities of the period a century ago need to be faced. The rejection of the opinion of a majority of citizens, expressed democratically ... Read more

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