Sir, - I suppose I should feel diminished by Mr Quinn's description of my parents and grandparents as "priest-ridden peasants". Although they were of the land, they held to principles which they did not abandon when it was both popular and profitable to do so.
Mr Quinn seems to harbour thee illusion that they believed in leprechauns; I can assure him that they did not. - Yours, etc.,
Furry Park Road, Killester, Dublin 5.