In the name of ... a selective rewriting of history?

Considering that I appeared only briefly in last Monday night’s documentary, In the Name of the Republic, about the War of Independence in Cork, I was surprised to find that John Borgonovo had so much to say about me in his response to the programme (Examiner, 27/3/2013).

Also, it’s strange that he would mention the targeting of Protestants by the Old IRA, seeing as it was not mentioned in the programme, and why he would bother relating the story of a dog, which was not mentioned either. I can only conclude that his article was aimed at me, as much as at the programme.

Mr Borgonovo’s argument is that we should ignore the accounts of IRA veterans such as Martin Corry, in terms of killings during the revolutionary period. Yet he knows that Corry’s is only one of many accounts that refer to the events carried out at Sing Sing.