[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir Harry Reichel states
in your issue of October 14th that Professor O'Rahilly wrote in the Dublin Quarterly justifying the assassination of unarmed policemen. Professor O'Rahilly can, doubtless, defend himself when faced by quotations, but it is only correct to say that no such article has appeared in the Quarterly Dublin Review, of which I am editor. Perhaps Sir Harry Reichel will be good enough to look up his references a second time, though he confesses he was unable to do so previously.—I am, Sir, &c., SHANE LESLIE, Editor. Glaslough, Co. Monaghan.
[Sir Harry Reichel informs us that he sent the following letter in answer to a complaint from Mr. Shane Leslie :—
" DEAR Sta,—I am in receipt of your letter of the 25th. The words 'Dublin Quarterly' were not intended as a title but as a description, the reference being of course to the theological review in which Professor O'Rahilly's article was published. Unfor- tunately, the typist took them for a title and put them in inverted commas, and they were accordingly printed in the Spectator in italics. As you yourself point out, 'Dublin Quarterly' is not the title of your review ; nevertheless, I sincerely regret that the words should by my inadvertence have appeared in a form which has caused you legitimate annoyance by suggesting to some readers that it was your review in which that notorious article appeared. I am sending a copy of this letter to the Editor of the Spectator.— Yours faithfully,
—ED. Spectator.]
HARRY R .REICREL.
Previous page
