Sir, - Shortly before his most untimely death, Jim Kemmy wrote to me a letter of great kindness concerning a positive development in my life. That thoughtful note written at a time of pain for him summed up so much about that unique man.
He held fast to great ideals and to an intellectually rigorous world view. But he gave meaning to those ideas and insights by building, by creative writing, by the pursuit of workable policies and by unfailing humanity in all his dealings.
This stonemason has left his greatest memorials in the hearts of those who met him. - Yours, etc.,
Bettyglen, Raheny, Dublin 5.