DR MARTIN MANSERGH TD refers to a private communication from Brian Girvin as proof that Elizabeth Bowen’s secret reports to the British government about Ireland during the war were not spy reports (Letters, September 26).

IN his recent letter on World War I, headlined ‘Emotional return to the killing fields’, Maurice O’Connell says the issues surrounding the involvement of so many Irishmen from the nationalist tradition (and the impact on their families) are extremely complex.