Sir, – Arlene Foster believes that those who brought about the 1916 Rising were egotists (Front Page, March 31st). Nothing new there and, in the context of human thinking, anyone who is not physically joined to another person is an egotist. But leaving that aside, where does her view leave the adulation reserved for the egotism of Edward Carson? Or Ian Paisley?
At least there were elements of a class struggle in the 1916 Rising, and if Northern working class Protestants had not been blindsided by the quasi-religious imperialist rhetoric of their “egotist” ruling classes, then the just element of the struggle, the class war, might have been more successful. – Yours, etc,
EUGENE TANNAM,
Firhouse, Dublin 24.
Sir, – Arlene Foster should reserve her comments for her jobshare post in her Mickey Mouse “Assembly”, which does not even have the dignity of being called a parliament. – Yours, etc,
P O’RIORDAN,
Dublin 8.