Madam, - On reading the excellent supplement on the 1916 Rising published with your edition of March 28th, I was surprised and disappointed at the lack of reference to the part my father, the late Comdt W.J. Brennan-Whitmore played before, during and after the week of the Rising.
My father was a commandant on the general staff of the Irish Volunteers and, prior to the Rising, he attended many meetings in Dublin with the leaders to discuss strategy and tactics.
He was ordered by General Connolly in the GPO to take 10 men and set up a post at the corner of North Earl Street and O'Connell Street. Among the garrison who held the post was Noel Lemass, brother of the late Taoiseach, Seán Lemass. Details of the fight in the North Earl Street position are given comprehensively in the book written by Comdt Brennan-Whitmore and published in 1996 by Gill and MacMillan, Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising from Behind the Barricades.
As a noted author and historian Comdt Brennan-Whitmore had previously written With the Irish in Frongoch, where, during his internment he had been elected camp adjutant. - Yours, etc,
ATTRACTA MAHER, Linden Square, Blackrock, Co Dublin.