I cannot answer Tony Moriarty’s question about whether he needs an eye test or not (May 2) but I can assure him that the correct state representatives were present at the recent commemoration for members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police killed during the Easter Rising.

Fiann O’Nuallain sings the praises of the trumpet-shaped lily which has long been an inspiration to artists as well as having deep symbolical connections for Irish nationalism and other countries striving for independence.

The Men Will Talk to Me:Kerry Interviews by Ernie O’Malley

The Military Archives, in collaboration with the National Archives, are to be congratulated for their digitisation of a substantial proportion of the Bureau of Military History collection.

The fiery culture clash between returning emigrant John Wayne and the Irish locals resonates 60 years on, says Cleo Murphy.

FOR a long time David McSavage looked as if he didn’t have what it takes to make it in the comedy world.

MY GRANDFATHER, Pat Harris, spoke proudly of marching to Macroom on Easter Monday, 1916, and of being arrested with Terence MacSwiney on August 12, 1920, at a meeting of the officers of Cork No 1 Brigade in Cork’s City Hall. But he never spoke about what the First Cork Brigade did in the two years that followed.

I WATCHED with interest the recent edition of Hidden History (RTÉ, October 23), entitled ‘The Killings at Coolacrease’.