Sir, - Recently I took some overseas guests of mine on a scenic drive through Co Wicklow. With a sense of pride at my country making honest endeavours to move forward in a positive manner, I stopped at Glencree National Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. We were surprised and pleased to see a notice directing visitors to a free exhibition.
Once inside, this showpiece consisted of enlarged - some greatly enlarged - photographs accompanied with explanatory notes. These pictures were of violence in the North. Most incidents, if not all, were of events in Derry on Bloody Sunday. Of course these pictures shocked, as they portrayed terrible and tragic happenings, of this there is no denying. The use of violence from whatever source has damaging consequences with regard to relationships.
What also shocked in that supposedly healing venue, was that there was no follow-on whatsoever of a conciliatory nature included in that display.
I question why so much time, effort and money has been spent to restore that once crumbling building to its fine present state, when such an exhibition only continues to foster divisiveness.
My overseas guests were not impressed and I was embarrassed to be Irish. - Yours, etc.,
Rosalind Matthews, Killiney, Co Dublin.