A brazen fiction versus our historical truth
In pointing the finger of blame at individuals in the North, when will we recognise that the South also indulged in what Fintan O’Toole has called ‘brazen fiction’?
According to Fintan O’Toole writing in the Irish Times last week, Gerry Adams ‘‘has created the most brazen fiction in contemporary Irish history’ in terms of his own life-story.
On the back of Brendan Hughes’s allegations about Adams in the new book Voices From The Grave by Ed Moloney, O’Toole says of Adams that ‘‘the carpet he has woven is much prettier than the hideous deeds that have been brushed under it’’. And ...
