We are still a long way from an agreed version of the Rising

IT is clear from the responses to President McAleese’s defence of the moral and political status of the Easter Rebellion of 1916, such as that you published by Brian McCaffrey (‘President’s speech under fire,’ Irish Examiner letters, February 7) ...

... that we are still far from possessing an historically agreed version of the Rising and of the events preceding and following it.

The only possible conclusion (given the intelligence with which the debate is conducted on both sides) is that the complexity of these historical events has still defeated our best efforts to understand them.