Sir, - I understand that the wearing of the poppy is to remember those who died to give us our today.
General Gough, as he was commonly called, was an Irishman, and one of those soldiers who fought in an Irish Regiment and chased the French out of Spain. His bronze statue, cast from surrendered cannon by the famous Irish sculptor John Foley, stood in the Phoenix Park until it was blown up; it now stands restored in the north of England.
However, when the time comes when Irishmen can agree to differ without resorting to violence, and we can accept the rider as well as the horse, the statue can bed returned to Dublin, and stand once more as a further acknowledgment to our maturing as a nation. - Yours, etc.,
Lodge Park,
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Straffan.