Home truths about Home Rule

Sir, – Further to your recent correspondence referring to John Redmond, perhaps it should be recorded that Michael Davitt (not…

Sir, – Further to your recent correspondence referring to John Redmond, perhaps it should be recorded that Michael Davitt (not alone amongst Irish parliamentarians) took a very critical view of Redmond’s character.

In a letter to John Dillon (then leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party), Davitt described Redmond as “unprincipled as he is morally a coward”. See Davit/Dillon papers, Trinity College Dublin. – Yours, etc,

CONOR O’KELLY,

Cross Avenue,

Booterstown,

Co Dublin.