Council calls for return of Easter Rising surrender letter

Dublin City Council is to write to the British government calling for the return of a surrender letter rebel leader Padraig Pearse handed to an English general after the Easter Rising, it emerged tonight.

Sinn Féin councillor Christy Burke is demanding the return of the handwritten document given to General WHM Lowe after Pearse agreed to an unconditional surrender on April 29, 1916.