Lord Mountbatten. 
Echoes of the past from the Archives
In February 1984, an American lady in San Diego, California, wrote to Dr Garret FitzGerald at the Department of the Taoiseach.
She had been troubled and moved by the assassination of Lord Mountbatten. She enclosed her response, a cheque as a donation to the erection of the Mountbatten memorial, which she assumed was already under way.
However, one of the Taoiseach’s staff had to write to her privately, returning the cheque. But in the odd American manner, her letter was unaddressed – her address was on the outside of the envelope, which had been thrown away.
Donation
Her donation had to be returned through the care of her bank manager at the Crocker National Bank. There was, the official had to admit, “no memorial to Lord and Lady Mountbatten in this state”.
The donor was merely premature. The idea of a memorial in Donegal resurfaced in 2009, leading to the not-unexpected protests from republicans and from Sinn Féin. So far, the only memorial is the one in Westminster Abbey at which President Michael D. Higgins paid tribute on his state visit last year.