Sir, – It cannot have been Violet Gibson’s “estranged father” who sent a telegram of sympathy to Benito Mussolini in 1926 after she had attempted to kill him (News , October 21st). Her father, the first Lord Ashbourne, had been dead for 13 years by then. The telegram was sent by her brother, the second Lord Ashbourne, a senior figure in the Gaelic League and a supporter of Patrick Pearse’s St Enda’s School. – Yours, etc,
CDC ARMSTRONG,
Belfast.