A chara, – In the Irish Embassy in London on the 100th anniversary of the passage of the third Home Rule Bill, John Bruton said that the Easter Rising had damaged the Irish psyche ("Padraig Pearse rejoiced in violence, says Bruton", July 2nd).
It can be said with certainty, however, that the Easter Rising didn’t damage Mr Bruton’s political career.
It would appear that he is under the impression that the position of taoiseach that he was privileged to hold fell out of the sky and had nothing whatsoever to do with the event in our history that led to our and his independence. – Is mise,
RORY O’CALLAGHAN,
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