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FROM THE ARCHIVES:A poetry anthology for the Leaving Cert and NUI matriculation, edited by a Jesuit priest Stephen J Brown, was reviewed by poet Austin Clarke who found it more concerned with religious orthodoxy than poetry. – JOE JOYCE

FATHER BROWN’S anxiety over questions of faith and morals seems to me to be unnecessary. He forgets that the examination is not a test in religious knowledge, and that the National University, by its constitution, is non-denominational.