Sir, – What a pleasure to read Lara Marlowe's article "Notre Dame out of the ashes" (Weekend Review, December 5th).
Amid the ashes, toxic lead and tangled scaffolding, she painted a picture of human defiance and the deeply ingrained need to rebuild what lay in ruins.
No less affecting was the article “Place of the week: Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Mosul, Iraq” (December 5th).
I hope both Notre Dame and the Great Mosque will arise again, as fitting testaments to the dedication of all who strive to rebuild brick by brick, fragment by fragment. – Yours, etc,
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MARY FOGARTY,
Balbriggan,
Co Dublin.