Sir, – If there is an “unseemly scramble” for ownership of 1916 (“That GPO moment”, Editorial, June 10th), it is being led by Fine Gael Ministers, while the relatives of the 1916 combatants are being ignored and frustrated in efforts to secure guarantees of invitations to various centenary events.
I felt compelled to gate-crash the official commemoration to mark the centenary of the foundation of Cumann na mBan at Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin on April 2nd last, as my great-aunt, Jennie Wyse Power, was a founder member and its first president.
A subsequent letter to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht remains unacknowledged and unanswered. – Yours, etc,
PATRICK O’BYRNE,
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