Southern pride in flag of honour

I REFER to your article regarding the use by some Cork GAA fans of “the American Confederate flag” (Irish Examiner, August 6).

The article included a gratuitous description of that flag as a representation “... of the promotion of racism and slavery”. That helpful historical description was supplied by a member of the Socialist Workers Party. As Irish socialists seem no better informed historically than socialists anywhere else, permit me to set the record straight.

More than 20 of my ancestors fought under that flag during the late unpleasantness between North and South.