Insurrection was a national betrayal

YOUR correspondent Dr Gerard Morgan’s enthusiastic backing of Dr Brian Murphy’s claim that the British government ‘betrayed Home Rule is based on the conviction that a falsehood often repeated will eventually become true (letters, December 1).

The fact is that Lloyd George attempted to secure Home Rule in the summer of 1916.

He tried again in a letter to John Redmond on May 16, 1917, offering Redmond Home Rule for the 26 Counties, or an Irish convention.