Letter to the Editor: RIC proposal - Not in my name

The current controversy re the RIC commemoration has awoken a memory of a story told to me by my mother when she herself was a young child.

Letter to the Editor: RIC proposal - Not in my name

The current controversy re the RIC commemoration has awoken a memory of a story told to me by my mother when she herself was a young child.

When my mother and her siblings, mainly girls, as her two older brothers were ā€œon the runā€ were getting ready to run barefoot through the hills of Cahirbarnagh to Rathduane National school resplendent in their starched petticoats, the door burst open and their house was raided by British crown forces.

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