Sir, – The sharp-eyed Mattie Lennon (Letters, September 21st) is indeed correct when he asks, in relation to the first line of Lonely Banna Strand, “When has Easter Sunday ever fallen on a day in May?”
As one always willing to allow poets and songwriters a fair latitude when it comes to political licence, I would suggest that Roger Casement, or the songwriter, may have been working off the Justinian calendar.
In which unlikely case, they would have been okay up until around May 8th. – Yours, etc,
PJ MALONEY,
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Cloneyheigue,
Co Westmeath.