Dear Editor, To judge by Gabriel Kelly’s letter about the effects of Brexit (IC 30/06/2016), one might think the (primarily) English vote to leave the EU must have been done following a calculation that the peace in Northern Ireland that was so hard fought for is worth gambling with.
Is it perhaps not more likely, though, that the typical Briton never thinks of the North as part of the UK? It’s often said that we Irish never forget our history, while the English never learn theirs. Might the same not be said of their geography?
Yours etc.,
Laurence O’Connor,
Navan, Co. Meath.