Person: Jack Lane

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Soldier for democracy
Cork’s bloody secret still not fully revealed
Political guarantees are not beyond question
Treaty guarantees are beyond question
Yes campaign has a credibility problem

IN his letter (July 11), Liam Aylward MEP assures us that at the last meeting of EU leaders in June, legal certainties were put in place which should allay all concerns about the Lisbon Treaty (Letters, July 11).

Mon, 20 Jul, 2009

Sarkozy owes us a fiscal explanation

IN his letter (June 13), James Hogan says we should tell French president Nicolas Sarkozy where to go when he comes here.

Wed, 17 Jun, 2009

Where to appreciate Irish world war victims

IN response to Tom Cooper and Jack Lane who feel that a remembrance concert to honour the Irish who fought and died during the First World War is wrong (Letters, October 20), I challenge anyone who shares these views to attend the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, just once.

Wed, 05 Nov, 2008

Bid to smear Irish who fought in First World War

IN THEIR letters (October 20) on the upcoming commemoration in Cork of the Irish soldiers who died in the First World War, Jack Lane and Tom Cooper infer or suggest outright that any such event would be an endorsement of the post-war military operations of the British army and security forces, specifically the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries.

Tue, 04 Nov, 2008

Ireland’s slow march towards maturity

THERE they go again — Jack Lane and Tom Cooper banging the old drum of nationalism and Stalinism (Letters, October 20).

Mon, 27 Oct, 2008

Irishmen went to the trenches because they were misled

I AGREE strongly with Jack Lane and Tom Cooper, both of whom criticised the trend towards State participation in November remembrance ceremonies (Letters, October 20).

Mon, 27 Oct, 2008

Redmond’s brave supporters valued the British connection

I SUGGEST to Jack Lane (Letters, October 20) that his interpretation of history is even more cynical and inaccurate than those who produced and co-authored The Tudors.

Mon, 27 Oct, 2008

The tragedy of the big lie

IN his letter (October 20), Jack Lane correctly challenges the idiotic proposal by Cork’s mayor Brian Bermingham to “honour the memories of the estimated 2,600 Corkmen who died in the First World War”. Perhaps the wearing of fancy dress mayoral robes has gone to his head. There was no honour in the First World War, just stupid imperialistic arrogance and massive crimes against humanity committed by all sides against each other and against the troops on their own sides.

Mon, 27 Oct, 2008

Concert insult to the ‘men who died twice’

YOU reported (October 10) how Cork’s Lord Mayor Brian Bermingham announced details of a concert in City Hall on November 8 “to honour the memories of the estimated 2,600 Corkmen who died in the First World War. Patrons have been invited to attend in period dress and compere Michael Twomey will conduct proceedings in the style of Leonard Sachs who hosted The Good Old Days”.

Mon, 20 Oct, 2008

No sympathy for a ‘hierarchy of regret’

BRENDAN CAFFERTY asks (Letters, February 4) why can’t I admit that “some awful things were done to Protestants in our name” during the War of Independence?

Mon, 11 Feb, 2008

Blaming the victims for their own fate

JACK LANE (Letters, January 21), in his usual Pavlovian response to my contribution on the attacks on Protestants during the War of Independence, falls, perhaps unwittingly, into the well-worn tactic of blaming the victims for their own fate.

Mon, 04 Feb, 2008

Sectarian or not? Presbyterian view of IRA actions in War of Independence

IN his letter headlined ‘Why IRA killers of the Pearson boys were guilty of a war crime (December 17), Brendan Cafferty gives what appears to be very damning evidence of republicans’ attitude towards Protestants during the War of Independence.

Mon, 21 Jan, 2008

Ill-founded vendetta against writer who did not betray her country

I AM not surprised that Jack Lane (Letters, October 8) is impervious to new evidence that his vendetta against the memory of Elizabeth Bowen is ill-founded.

Tue, 06 Nov, 2007

Writer’s wartime role: a question of sources

MARTIN MANSERGH (Letters, September 26) relies on (unquoted) help from Prof Brian Girvin in his efforts to prove that Elizabeth Bowen’s activities in Ireland during World War II were other than those of a patriotic British spy.

Tue, 09 Oct, 2007

Britain and Ireland were best of enemies back then

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).

Mon, 08 Oct, 2007

We don’t need yarns about the past to maintain good relations now

I THINK it is not very becoming for an acclaimed legislator, Dr Martin Mansergh TD, to be so gratuitously rude to another correspondent, Jack Lane who put his case on Elizabeth Bowen’s reports on World War II in a very scholarly and objective manner (Letters, September 17).

Mon, 08 Oct, 2007

Anglo-Irish writer was helpful to both countries

Notwithstanding the offensive campaign over many years by Jack Lane to blacken the memory of Elizabeth Bowen, the holding of a Trevor/Bowen weekend in Mitchelstown and the annual service at Farahy show that many people in north Cork appreciate the area’s association with a famous writer.

Wed, 26 Sep, 2007

Not the only one

ACCORDING to Jack Lane (Letters, Sept 5) and Dr Martin Mansergh TD (Letters, Sept 6), former Fine Gael leader and agriculture minister James Dillon was the only politician who wanted to involve Ireland in Word War II.

Wed, 12 Sep, 2007

A laudable emissary, yes; a traitor, no

JACK LANE (Letters, August 20 and September 5) might desist from his continuing efforts to denigrate the memory of the writer Elizabeth Bowen, who is buried in Farahy Church, near Kildorrery in north Cork, of which I am a trustee (my family and hers are related by marriage). He has two grievances in particular against her: one, that she spied against Ireland, betraying Ireland’s interests/secrets to the British in WWII, and, second, on the basis of a fleeting, frustrated remark, that she hated Ireland.

Thu, 06 Sep, 2007

British deemed Bowen reports espionage

KATHLEEN FITZGIBBON says she has “one, if not two, advantages over Mr Lane.

Wed, 05 Sep, 2007

A ‘spy’ writer in good company

THE letter from Jack Lane on the Trevor/Bowen Summer School in Mitchelstown and Farrihy, Kildorrery, Co Cork (August 20) gave an interesting side-view on a great Irish writer.

Wed, 29 Aug, 2007

Elizabeth Bowen: the missing chapters

YOUR report on the inaugural Trevor/Bowen Summer School in Mitchelstown (County, August 14) says “the audience was thrilled to hear the voice of Elizabeth Bowen” from a recording that was part of Donnacha O’Dulaing’s lecture on the writer.

Mon, 20 Aug, 2007

Irish misled into war against Central Powers

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.

Mon, 26 Mar, 2007

Third party needed to sort out conflicting claims

LIKE many of your readers I am very interested in the issues raised by Jack Lane and Meda Ryan in recent correspondence on the Kilmichael ambush.

Mon, 29 May, 2006

It’s time to put names on ambush story sources

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, May 6), Jack Lane drew attention to John Regan’s review of my book, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press) where the reviewer stated that Peter Hart was “fortunate in finding survivors of the ambush alive and lucid nearly 70 years after the event
 one of whom, he notes, visited the site with him”.

Mon, 22 May, 2006

It’s time to put names on ambush story sources

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, May 6), Jack Lane drew attention to John Regan’s review of my book, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press) where the reviewer stated that Peter Hart was “fortunate in finding survivors of the ambush alive and lucid nearly 70 years after the event
 one of whom, he notes, visited the site with him”.

Mon, 22 May, 2006

Historian’s ambush account comes under fire

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.

Sat, 06 May, 2006

Both sides confirmed ambush false surrender

YOUR columnist Ryle Dwyer (Irish Examiner, January 8) says that “history is not an exact science, so the current controversy over the Kilmichael ambush is unlikely to be resolved.

Sat, 15 Jan, 2005

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