Sir, – I am somewhat bemused by your photograph captioned “Welcome to Connemara: Alcock and Brown re-enactment marks 100th anniversary of historic flight” (June 17th).
The aforementioned aviators were not met by Marconi and his wife when they crash-landed in Connemara.
Moreover, Marconi’s wife at the time was not Annie Jameson but Beatrice O’Brien.
Annie Jameson from Wexford was Marconi’s mother. – Yours, etc,
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KEVIN
O’SULLIVAN,
Letterkenny,
Co Donegal.