ISN’T IT amazing how apologists for brutality and violence react when their myths are exploded and the contents laid bare for all to see.

A TIDAL wave of atrocity stories has resulted from the RTÉ Hidden History programme (October 23) on the 1921 execution of the Pearson brothers in Co Offaly.

THE controversial revisionist historian Dr Peter Hart is to speak on political violence at the Irish Historical Society in UCC on Tuesday next. One of the events in Irish history on which Dr Hart made his reputation is the Kilmichael ambush of November 1920.

EXAMINATION papers completed for the British Civil Service by War of Independence hero Michael Collins have been discovered in London.