11 MAY 1996, page 28

Sir: Of Course Many Irish Clergy And Laity Must Have

been traumatised by the brutal excesses of the occupying English (how sad that they didn't have the milder yoke of the Germans, French, Belgians and Dutch as exemplified in......

My Leader, Your Leader

Sir: It is your perfect right to believe (Lead- er, 4 May) that John Major is fit to hold the office of prime minister, but it will not do to caricature his Tory detractors as......

Sir: Sean O'callaghan Brings To Light (`mur- Der With The

Fathers' help', 20 April) facts which most of us have been aware of for years, and which, for some reason or other, have always been evaded or covered up. The situation should......

Trusty Steed

Sir: As Stephen Glover says (Media studies, 4 May), Henry Wickham Steed emerges badly from S.J. Taylor's (or any other) account of his dealings with Northcliffe. He first sucked......

Letters God And Nationalism

Sir: Sheridan Gilley raised some interesting points in his letter (27 April). I must say that I was horrified that he should believe me to be 'as much an extremist as ever'. My......

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