Sir, - James P. Brennan (February 24th) is wrong again. Sir Richard Musgrave does refer to 84 victims at Scullabogue, and furthermore names them. If Mr Brennan opens his Musgrave at page 735 he will find there, and over the next 20 pages, lists of Protestants killed during the 1798 Rising. The number who died at Scullabogue is given as 84.
I prefer this evidence to Musgrave's own speculative surmise, based apparently on "the evidence of different" (though unnamed) "persons" that more than 84 were killed there. As for Thomas Pakenham's sources, perhaps the less said about them the better. Suffice it to say that Pakenham used, exclusively, Government or loyalist sources. There are two sides to every story. - Yours, etc.,
Kincora Avenue,
Dublin 3.