Sir, – Reading Mary Minihan’s piece on voting patterns in Donegal (Opinion, November 15th) brought to mind a conversation I had with my then elderly father about a trip I had made to Venice. When I told him that the parish of Templecrone in west Donegal was on a map painted on a wall in the Doges palace in the 17th century, his reaction was amazement and disbelief.
Then he said, “Imagine,the Venetians knew about us in the 1700s and Dublin only discovered us in the 1960s”. It gives veracity to Mary Minihan’s piece, I think. – Yours, etc,