Sir, – I refer to the opinion piece by Mary Feely "Once a culchie, never a Dub" (September 17th). As a native of the Liberties of Dublin, it was generally accepted in Francis Street that the definition of a Dublin person was anyone who lived there and didn't talk about going home for their holidays. – Yours, etc,
SEAN O’CONNOR,
Merton Road,
Dublin 6.
Sir, – What makes Mary Feely think that a culchie would want to be a Dub or a Dub a culchie? Most of the 72 per cent of indigenous Irish people born outside the metropolis are happy with their background and the other 28 per cent are pleased to be Dubs.
When James Joyce was asked would he ever return to Dublin, he replied, “I never left”. As the Greek poet, Cavafy, said: “In those streets and fields where you grew up, there you will live and there you will die”. – Yours, etc,
MATTIE LENNON,
Kylebeg,
Lacken,
Blessington,
Co Wicklow.