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Carta enviada a los medios y publicada por 

"THE IRISH TIMES,  FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1974

PETROL-BOMBING AND CULTURE 

Sir, - To the long list of violent forms of political protest in Ireland it seems that we can now add the protrol-bombing of a cultural centre. As university students and teachers we are appalled by the recent attack on the Institute Cultural Espanol in Dublin while its Director was attending and all-Ireland congress of students of Spanish in University College, Cork, and his wife and their baby were alone in the building.

The Institute, officially opened only a few weeks ago, is exclusively concerned with cultural activities, and thousands of people have already availed themselves of its services, and know that these are offered without any political strings.

We hold no brief whatever for the Franco regime, political repression or any form of capital punisheman and deplore the execution of Spanish anarchists as much as any petrol-bomber thinks the does. It is true that the building was not badly damaged and nobody was killed. The only casualty is the language and culture which some students will not want to go on with if the premises in which they study are ever again attacked by individuals who clearly lack the guts to risk being caught with a box of matches in Barcelona or Madrid, and get God knows what kick out of causing distress to a woman and child in an unprotected house.- Yours, etc.,"   

Firmada por  62 profesores y alumnos de los departamentos de Estudios Hispánicos de las universidades Trinity College y University College de Dublin.