Sir, - Mr Brian Maye (An Irishman's Diary, August 26th) rightly contends that if there is anyone in Irish history who deserves a summer school in his honour it is Arthur Griffith.
In a posthumous tribute, Erskine Childers said of him: "He was the greatest intellectual force stimulating the national revival." This was a wonderfully honest and astonishing appraisal, as it came from an antagonist for whom Griffith had developed an intense loathing.
Though spent in penury, his life was devoted unstintingly to Ireland. He was never other than totally selfless - in stark contrast to the horde of hogs recently seen to have befouled the body politic.
The truth is there is no Irish figure more worthy of a summer school than Arthur Griffith. - Yours, etc.,
Patrick Boland PC, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.