Ethnic cleansing

Sir,—Re the ongoing debate on ‘ethnic cleansing’ (Letters, HI 20.3, May/June 2012). In his great welcome-home poem to Daniel O’Connell after the Clare election in 1828, the South Kerry poet Tomás Ruadh Ó Suilleabháin looked forward to Catholic supremacy with the arrival of Emancipation. He warns Protestants that O’Connell will be on their track ‘go ... Read more

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