A chara, – Paul Gorry (January 11th) asserts that the shameful loss of the Public Records Office of Ireland in 1922, when the Four Courts was shelled, “was perpetrated by the founders of the State”. He may be literally correct but those who occupied the Four Courts share the responsibility.
Winston Churchill is reputed to have said at the time, “Better a State without an Archive than an Archive without a State”. – Is mise,