Protestants whose actions give the lie to ‘sectarian war’ theory

NIALL GINTY (Letters, November 19) and Eoghan Harris (Sunday Independent, November 11) both commented on my letter to you (November 9).

In that letter I addressed the issue of the killing of two young Protestants at Coolacrease, Co Offaly, in 1921, and maintained the killings were not indicative of a sectarian war of ethnic cleansing by the IRA, as had been portrayed in the RTÉ Hidden History programme.

I cited various examples of Catholic and Protestant co-operation during this period of conflict which were incompatible with a sectarian war.