Sir, - The campaign to denationalise the thinking of people, by revisionist historians, sections of the media and a coalition of other vested interests, is having considerable success. The suppression of national pride through the defamation of our dead patriots, who died to free us from foreign rule, is a dangerous, destructive strategy, with a capacity to damage permanently the spirit of our people.
The subversive from within poses a much greater threat than an external one. Today, young people are confused by revisionist journalists and some writers who castigate and label those who attempt to challenge their infallible judgements on issues such as funding of our national games and the provision of facilities by the GAA for other sports organisations, while concealing their real agenda of destabilising organisations that cultivate local and national pride in young people.
Law and order is best maintained among people who are proud of their country, its history, heritage and culture. Equally important is the established fact that a people proud of their national identity are a caring considerate people about the welfare of others in their community and are welcoming to those who come to live among them. The denationalising campaign of the revisionists is having a demeaning impact that leads to vandalism, racialism and other destructive tendencies in young people who have been mentally polluted by the anti-Irish activists.
It is time that the silent majority acted to curb the attack upon the core values and institutions to which the Irish nation and the Irish State owe their formation and continuity. The most dangerous threat to our nation is coming from revisionists who are using the greatest weapon in the armoury of the subversive, the media, to achieve their goal. - Yours, etc.,
John J. Hassett, Old Road, Cashel, Co Tipperary.