Sir, – Frank McNally has excelled in reminding us of the sequence of damage to Dublin’s monuments over the past 70 years (An Irishman’s Diary, October 26th). His quote about the UDA breaking up the original Wolfe Tone monument at St Stephen’s Green as “the disunited Irishman” will live long in the land of yarns. But remember Carlisle had his revenge for being knocked off his pedestal by the IRA in the park in 1958, only to remain on the plaque on O’Connell bridge celebrating that it was originally named after himself. – Yours, etc,
IAN ELLIOTT,
Belfast.