Kya deLongchamps investigates the history behind the myth

I read your report (Jan 29) on an article by John Martin of the Center for Research and Globalization in Montreal, Canada on a part of our history that is not on the national consciousness yet, like the Great Famine. But it is getting there.

IT’S not very often these pages are graced by a 335-year-old house, but then, Glencastle House, Co Waterford, is no ordinary property.

WHENEVER a deceased person is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to have been unfairly accused, vilified or misrepresented in the media, we hear renewed calls for the extension of the libel laws to embrace the reputations of the dead.

A US town plans to drop the family crest of Oliver Cromwell from its official coat of arms following complaints that the former English ruler was responsible for the massacre of thousands of Irish Catholics.