Letter: For king and country

Tuesday 15 December 1992 00:02 GMT

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Sir: Stephen Clery writes: 'The Irish were no more 'British' before 1921 than they are now' (letter, 10 December). My late mother recounted how when she was a girl in South-west Ireland, her uncle when home on leave from the trenches during the First World War would accost any young man out of uniform on the streets and demand to know why he was not serving his king and country.

After the war, members of Sinn Fein entered my mother's uncle's house and ordered him to take down a photograph of the King and Queen or be shot. Placing himself below the photograph, he said that he would be shot there. The Sinn Feinners left without shooting him.

How much more British than that can you be?

Faithfully,

E. PAULL

London, SW16

11 December

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