Sir, – It seems harsh of Patrick O’Byrne to add Home Rule to the list of Great Irish Failures (January 18th). After all, it seems that the concept’s time has finally come in this, the centenary year of its only successful parliamentary legislation.
For what is Ireland’s real situation now but that of a Home Rule legislature, where all the serious policies are sorted out elsewhere by external authorities leaving us with merely a modicum of autonomy on purely local issues? – Yours, etc,