A chara, - Like Bill Meehan (November 2nd), I was very impressed by the exhibition on Donegal and the first World War in the Letterkenny Museum. Thanks to Caroline Carr and the other organisers, local aspects were well placed in the wider context.
As pointed out in Tuarascβil (October 3rd), many of the Donegalmen who joined the British army were native Irish speakers. That significant dimension is worthy of further research in conjunction with the proposed Donegal remembrance book.
My inquiries into the stories of 25 Irish barristers killed in the first World War show that one of them, William Alfred Lipsett, of the Canadian division, was a native of Ballyshannon, Co Donegal. Local aspects from various parts of Ireland should be linked into the Irish Peace Park, Mesen, Flanders, in accordance with the hopes expressed during the formal opening of the park on that special Remembrance Day in 1998. - Is mise,
Anthony P. Quinn, An Leabhrainn Dl∅, Na Ceirthe Ch·irt, Baile ┴tha Cliath.