Sir,—I recently bought the Winter issue of HI. I found it both enlightening and entertaining. I particularly liked the article by Christine Kinealy about revisionism and the Great Irish Famine. I discovered what I believe to be an error in the Connemara Railway article. If you will carefully examine both photographs of the stations at Clifden (p. 38) and Recess (p. 39), I think you will discover that they are both pictures of the Recess station. Not only are both stations the same, the building farther down the tracks on the right hand side is also the same. Check it out. Let me know what you think.—Yours etc.,
RONALD A. PATRICK
PO Box 1313,
Orleans, Ma 02653,
USA
The author, Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill, assures us that they are two distinct stations. Almost all the Connemara stations, including ancillary buildings, were constructed identically, hence the similarities correctly spotted by Mr. Patrick.