Madam, - Desmond FitzGerald ( The Irish Times, August 22nd) declares that Dermot MacMurrough invited the "English", including his own Geraldine ancestors, including Strongbow, to Ireland. It was not an invitation. As was the custom, he hired Flemish and Norman French mercenaries, soldiers to assist his return to power. When he died abruptly they remained and consolidated. Desmond FitzGerald should apologise. - Yours, etc,
NICHOLAS FURLONG, FRSAI, Drimnagh Lodge, Wexford.
Madam, - In reply to Desmond Fitzgerald's letter (August 22nd):
Sorry. - Yours, etc,
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ROGER, AOIFE (21 months) and ISOLDE (6 months) MacMURROUGH, Lennox St, Dublin 8.