Sir, - I have recently had the opportunity to read the very interesting book by Uinseann MacEoin, The IRA and the Twilight Years. Regretfully, I find it necessary to refute accounts of alleged ill treatment of me in the Curragh Internment camp when I was a prisoner there in the 1940s. At no time was I beaten, unmercifully or otherwise, either in the internment camp or in the military detention barracks.
I expect that, in the circumstances of the time, rumours may have circulated around the camp when 50 or so prisoners, including myself, were taken to the detention barracks, and kept there in solitary confinement for several months before being moved to Mountjoy Prison. As there was no contact with the 500 or so remaining prisoners in the camp, they were left to speculate on what might have been taking place elsewhere, in the "Glasshouse".
Yours, etc.,
Roebuck Road,
Dublin 14.