| I read his piece (online) on Friday with amazement. I could swear it was in “AN IRISHMAN’S DIARY” but later when I sought it could not find it. When I eventually found it there was no mention of the DIARY. I know I’m getting old and wheels are falling off my wagon but I would like someone to tell me whether I am mistaken. The ambassador was going on about British Military casualties of WWII amongst other things. Near 400,000 from the Empire over which the sun had notset – and further afield, including Ireland. I was wondering why the Russian Ambassador was not invited to write on The Great Patriotic War which claimed the lives of sixty times as many people from a population a fraction of that of the British Empire. For a bonus perhaps an Indian might have been asked to mention the millions who died in the1942-1943 Famine engineered by Churchill, and the thousands of democrats interned by the Raj. The Taoiseach whose father was Indian ‘might beprevailed upon to remark on these subjects, and, while wooing Fianna Fail, mention the hero’s welcome De Valera got in the newly-liberated Indiain 1948. Then again, Pigs might Fly.To add insult to injury, the Ambassador’s piece was accompanied by a photo of the RAF’s “Paddy” Finucane praised by Churchill in his mean-hearted VE Day Speech, praising such “Good Irishmen” who served the Empire and sneering at those other Irishmen and women who served Ireland. Whilst the murderers of Belfast’s Patrick Finucane remain at large the IRISH TIMES and the AMBASSADOR should be Personae Non Gratae in civilised society. |
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