Sir, – The commitment to grammar and syntax of the poets who wrote the 1916 proclamation may have blinded them to the danger of including a euphemism for male genitalia – “manhood” – in the text.
As Frank McNally observes (An Irishman's Diary, May 20th), they successfully avoided several other dangling modifiers. – Yours, etc,
Dr JOHN DOHERTY,
Gaoth Dobhair,
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