Dr. Claire Mitchell:

Gabhaim buíochas, a Chathaoirligh, as ucht na ceisteanna. I thank the Cathaoirleach for acknowledging the huge role that Protestants played in the formation of the Irish Republic. After partition these histories were diluted, erased and taken away from us. It seems ridiculous that we are only discovering or rediscovering the contributions that were made. We became very disconnected from these histories and figures.

The Cathaoirleach is absolutely right that 1798 - not the pikes as I was raised a pacifist but the Enlightenment concepts-----