So nobody has an issue with the 1916 plaque at Glasnevin ?

I wonder are you and your readers aware of the intention of the authorities at Glasnevin Cemetery to erect a memorial wall on which will be inscribed the names of the patriots who were killed during Easter Week 1916 — to be intermingled with the names of the the British Army in alphabetical order.

Details of this can be found on the website of the Glasnevin Trust.

This project has the tacit support of our government and was launched by Taoiseach Enda Kenny early last year.

Apparently the two commemoration committees appointed by government did not find it a problem, nor indeed do any of our elected representatives, none of whom have uttered a word about it and, astonishingly, the latter, including Sinn Féin who, to quote one of their representatives on the subject said “ we do not oppose it”.

Such an insult to those whom we are purporting to honour this year is incomprehensible to me and I’m sure to many others; except that nobody is talking about it.

It has not been discussed since it’s initial launch and Enda Kenny’s early comments.

Is it possible that many people do not know about it?

Would another nation contemplate such a project? Would the British honour the Germans among their own heroes?

Would the Americans honour the Vietcong?

The proposal seems to be surrounded by a great silence. Why should this be? Where is the National Graves Association on this?

Even the relatives of the executed leaders and of the other participants who gave their lives for this country are silent.

Exercised about the demolition of houses in Moore Street, they are saying nothing about what could be perceived as an insult to the patriots.

Alice Hanratty

Henrietta St

Dublin 1