Obliterating historic site will erase part of our past

After watching the debate on the Moore Street motion on my computer, and hearing references to American historic sites and our historic preservation efforts, I felt I had to write to encourage Ireland to preserve the important battleground of her nationhood, Moore Street.

There is no more amazing feeling as an American than to enter Independence Hall in Philadelphia and see where brave men like Thomas Jefferson debated our independence, or see the battlefields at Yorktown or Trenton where independence was won.

I had that same feeling when I had the opportunity to tour the GPO garrison’s last battlefield with a descendant of one of Ireland’s martyrs.