A chara, – I agree with Denis Fahey (Letters, September 11th) that Rev George Whitmore Carr founded the first formal Temperance Movement in Europe. An earlier workplace attempt had been made in Cork. Incidentally, Carr’s family were also related to the family of George Bernard Shaw.
Discussions have already taken place with New Ross Municipal District officials on the provision of a blue plaque to mark Carr’s birthplace. – Yours, etc,
BERNARD BROWNE,
Old Ross,
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