Sir, – In your article last Wednesday on Jackie Kennedy, attention was drawn to her friendship with Father Leonard of All Hallows, Dublin (Front Page, May 13th). I was working in the 1950s in the Irish Central Library for Students, Upper Mount Street, Dublin, and Fr Leonard used to visit there often. He would arrive whistling Nell Flaherty's Drake and challenge me to tell him the tune's name. He told me once that on a holiday in Parknasilla in Kerry he and George Bernard Shaw were staying in the same hotel. Walking together, Shaw used to ask him about aspects of Catholicism, information he needed for his play Saint Joan. When Shaw died in 1956 Fr Leonard took part in the BBC radio programme about him. Yes, the Kennedys and Shaw! The proverb "Is beag í Éire" (Ireland is small) springs to mind. – Yours, etc,
DIARMUID
BREATHNACH,
Sidmonton Gardens,
Bray, Co Wicklow.