IRISH MY ERSE!

On November 3rd 2007, Dr Garret FitzGerald, who has served a number of  terms as Taoiseach and one term as Ireland's Foreign Minister, dealt with deliberate untruths in a recently published study of the conflict in or over the North of Ireland from 1969 ,commissioned by the Chief of Britain's Defence Staff.

Britain's  propaganda warriors have not been decommissioned.

The study misrepresented the attitudes of Irish Governments under Fianna Fail's Jack Lynch, and under Fine Gael-led Coalition Governments led by Dr FitzGerald himself and the one in which he was Foreign Ministers.

Dr FitzGerald was understandably peeved that these Governments were depicted as ultra-nationalist and anti-British.

A great many Irish people, and not only IRA or Sinn Fein supporters, believed that those Irish Governments collaborated with British repression and acquiesced in false anti-Irish propaganda to a disgraceful extent.

For myself, I personally published letters and articles suggesting that those Irish administrations were the equivalent of the Vichy Governments under Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval which earned those two gentlemen a life sentence and a firing squad, respectively, under a liberated France.

(to be continued)

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