Madam, - Gerard Murphy's meticulously researched book's centralcontentious thesis is that some Cork city "Old" IRA men and women,particularly from units of the 2nd Battalion covering the southeastern Cork suburbs of Douglas and Blackrock Road area, kidnappedand executed "enemy spies" (some of them teenagers) after the Trucein July 1921 until the Free State National Army entered Cork inAugust 1922.
This callous terror campaign caused a sudden, calamitouspermanent collapse of the Protestant population in this part of thecity which deserves further indepth sincere evaluation andverification rather than an internet campaign of vilificationagainst the author.
If Gerard Murphy's contention of an unprovoked sectarian vengeful"land-grab", masquerading under cover of the legitimate War ofIndependence, holds up, I as a proud passionate Corkman will besaddened and profoundly ashamed of my heretofore understanding ofthis period of Irish history. - Yours, etc,
MARK CHARLES NOLAN,
Model Farm Road,
Cork.
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