A chara, – The English – as well as other European powers, such as the French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese – spent hundreds of years travelling around the world killing people and taking their stuff and on the back of such crimes built empires to promote further criminality, including chattel slavery.
I would urge all reasonable people, especially those whose countries which suffered from colonisation, to refrain from accepting any honour which appropriates the recipient’s good works in order to whitewash imperial horrors.
Good deeds are their own reward. – Is mise,
DÁITHÍ Mac CÁRTHAIGH,
Matt Williams: Take a deep breath and see how Sam Prendergast copes with big Fiji test
New Irish citizens: ‘I hear the racist and xenophobic slurs on the streets. Everything is blamed on immigrants’
Jack Reynor: ‘We were in two minds between eloping or going the whole hog but we got married in Wicklow with about 220 people’
‘I could have gone to California. At this rate, I probably would have raised about half a billion dollars’
Baile Átha Cliath 7.
Sir, – Ciana Campbell (Letters, June 21st) writes that in the event of an Irish honours system, she’d like to be considered for a DBE, Dame of the Burren Empire.
Personally I’d be happy with an OBE, Of Ballaghaderreen Extraction. – Yours, etc,
PAUL MURPHY,
Dublin 9.