Sir,—John A. Murphy’s remarks on Tomás Ruadh Ó Suilleabháin are, to put it politely, rather remote from truth. Nowhere in Ó Suilleabháin’s 1828 poem does he express the wish that Protestants be subject to ‘ethnic cleansing’. The poet, after alluding to Wolfe Tone’s failed 1796 Bantry Bay expedition, expresses the desire that the peasantry be ... Read more
