2 NOVEMBER 1991, Page 37

Biting on the bullet

Sir: Before anyone else does I must correct a slip in my review (26 October) of Profes- sor Mansergh's The Unresolved Question while pointing out, in the light of recent criticism of your proof-reading, that it is a small thing but my own. The bullets direct- ed 70 years ago at the building which bears the Royal coat of arms on Dublin's St Stephen's Green were of course not repub- lican but those of the British army meant for the republicans inside. Further useful evidence of the complexity of the question.

Robert Kee

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