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SIR - As an Irishwoman currently residing in Wales, I feel I am in a position to clear up some of the issues raised in the rhetorical questions posed by C E Lambert (Western Mail, Letters, October 17).
His first question suggests that the Irish did not want independence at all, and instead were forced into it by a gang of 'blood-soaked desperados'. If he were to check his history books he would, of course, see that the majority of Irish people were passionately for independence - hence the reason why Lloyd George felt it necessary to send the awful Black and Tans to Ireland in the first place. Like the Welsh, the Irish did not ask to be stripped of their lands, language and culture by the invading English centuries before.See the full content of this document
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In his second question, Lambert tells us that...
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