Sir, - Robert Ballagh (May 21st) takes revisionists to task for trying to see different aspects of a situation at the same time, like the chameleon. Humans can have only a "single perspective", he says.
Revisionism for its own sake is indeed execrable. But the reality is that we and our forebears have been consistently misled by politicians of every stripe and background, and this must also be revealed. Surely he wants today's historians to be more independently self-confident than the old-style polemicists and apologists. - Yours, etc.,
Patrick Guinness, Furness, Naas, Co Kildare.