Sir, - I support the erection of a statue of Patrick Pearse in Dublin, on condition that written on its base are the following extracts from the writings of Pearse:
1. "Irish hate of the English is a holy passion."
2. December 1915: "The last 16 months have been the most glorious in the history of Europe. The old heart of the earth needed to be warmed with the red wine of the battlefields. Such august homage was never offered to God as this, the homage of millions of lives given gladly for the love of country."
3. "That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the same."
4. "It is murder and death that make possible the terrible beautiful thing we call physical life. Ireland has not known the exhilaration of war for over a hundred years." - Yours, etc.,
Stephen Fallon, Barrington Street, Limerick.