Dear Editor, Felix M Larkin’s review of Joe Good’s Inside the GPO 1916: A First-hand Account in the issue of July 30 acknowledges the author’s vivid account of his experiences in the turbulent years from 1916 to 1921. He is rightly critical of Good’s seeming lack of compassion and regret for those affected by the violence involved in the struggle for independence.
However, his review could be described as a classical example of an all too common revisionism when without qualification he writes that the ‘the Rebels’, such as Good, the Londoner, were “similar to the jihadists of European origin who are today guilty of appalling atrocities at home and in the Middle East”.
Yours etc.,
J Anthony Gaughan,
Blackrock,
Co. Dublin.