It is instructive that your correspondents Fr Butler (Letters, Aug 23) and Pat Kelly (Letters, Aug 28) had to delve deeply into the dim distant realms of mythology and ancient history to find some dubious justification for the term ‘Rebel Cork’.

In response to Fr Butler’s letter (Aug 23) about rebel Cork, and Cork supporting Perkin Warbeck’s claim to the English throne: some four years before Warbeck’s claim, Lambert Simnel also was proclaimed king in Cork, thought by some to be one or other of the princes in the Tower, and was accompanied to London to seize the throne, by the mayor and officials of Cork.

Thank you Fr Butler for enlightening us ‘Cork Rebels’ (Letters, Aug 23).