Madam, - Michael J. Kilgannon (January 7th) states that the battle of Aughrim, in the opinion of the noted military historian G.A. Hayes-McCoy, "was one of the three great battles in Irish history, the others being Clontarf and Kinsale".
However, in one of his publications, the late Prof McCoy writes that the Battle of the Yellow Ford, in which O'Neill and his Irish forces wiped out an Elizabethan English army and its commander in 1595, during the course of the Nine Years War, was Ireland's greatest strategic military victory. - Yours, etc,
SEOSAMH MAC ÉINRÍ, Oakdale Court, Limerick.