Madam, - You report (Nov 27th) the criticism of the decision to circulate Diarmuid Ferriter's new book on Éamon de Valera to secondary schools.
Judging Dev is an important work which is a "must read" for students of modern Irish history. However, it is not error-free. De Valera had eye surgery in Zurich, Switzerland and in Utrecht, Netherlands but certainly not in "Utrecht, Switzerland", as the author states in the second paragraph of page 221 of his work. This is scarcely an error of historical significance but perhaps it would be safer to keep the book away from students of geography. - Yours, etc,
(Prof) CONAL HOOPER,
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