A chara, – Cal Hyland (May 22nd) lists the founding of Arthur Griffith’s first newspaper and, a few years later, his foundation of Sinn Féin as major factors in the constructive phase of the “fight for Irish freedom”. He writes that a retrospective recognition is well due to these events. Can I reassure him that my forthcoming biography of Griffith will hopefully contribute to this, as well as examining Griffith’s rationale for opposing the 1916 Rising itself. – Yours, etc,
ANTHONY J JORDAN,
Gilford Road,
Dublin 4.
