Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I support amendment No. 40 on the repatriation of heritage. Visitors to any museum in the UK, especially in London, will see artefacts from all over the world, many of which are from Ireland. In 1916, during the Easter Rising, there was no rising in Limerick but there was a mobilisation. At that time, a flag was seized from the Irish Volunteers by the 4th Battalion of the British Army's Leinster Regiment. That flag was taken to England. It became the property of the then Queen and was displayed in the Imperial War Museum. Following a campaign I launched in 2014, it was returned to Ireland on loan in 2015. It was subsequently returned to the UK, without my knowledge unfortunately, and is now, I think, back in the Imperial War Museum. By passing this amendment, we could make progress on getting that flag back, not just on loan, as Deputy Ó Snodaigh said, but full time.

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