On a more serious note for a so called intellectual she is very ignorant of Irish History--from her letter
"In our own conflicts, whose centenaries we have been commemorating, each time the fighting was ended by a ceasefire being called, followed by negotiation. This was so in the 1916 Rising, in the War of Independence, and in our tragic Civil War." I
n 1916 there was a surrender, no negotiations and the leaders were shot. The civil war ended when the Republicans dumped their arms after being defeated and many of them being executed. there were no negotiations