Ethnic cleansing and Tomás Rua Ó Suilleabháin

Sir,—Twice now Prof. Murphy has used a clipped quote from a poem of Tomás Rua Ó Suilleabháin to state that the poet wished to subject the Protestant community to ‘ethnic cleansing’ (Letters, HI 20.5, Sept./Oct. 2012, and HI 21.1, Jan./Feb. 2013). Prof. Murphy quotes the second-last line of the poem as evidence—‘go nglanfar cruinn as ... Read more

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