A chara, – Your report (Lorna Siggins, Home News, December 9th) featuring the old photograph which recently came to light in a Dublin attic was thought-provoking. Taken in Galway of a Gaelic League group in 1913, the photograph included half the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation and three future presidents of the new State.
What a gem this photograph is and what a reminder it is, 100 years on, of how much our State owes to the Gaelic League. And how ironic its reappearance now when our current administration seems intent on dismantling whatever supports there have been up to this for the use of Irish in the public life of our country. – Is mise,
JOHN GLENNON,
Bannagroe,
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Hollywood, Co Wicklow.