ANTHONY P.QUINN,
A chara, - Further to Vincent Browne's tribute to the late Rev Dr P. O'Donoghue (Opinion, August 28th), I wish to record my recent memories of him.
During research on the Irish barristers who died in the first World War, I sought information about Cornelius MacCarthy, who came from Bandon, Co Cork. Dr O'Donoghue, a historian and archivist, very kindly supplied details about MacCarthy, who attended Castleknock College from 1902 to 1905.
The College Chronicle, published annually, put the personal story into the wider context as many Castleknock past pupils volunteered to serve in the British forces. Lt C.A. MacCarthy of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers drowned after a torpedo attack in the Mediterranean in 1917, and is named on the Basra memorial in Iraq.
During a recent visit to the Four Courts, Dr O'Donoghue spoke proudly about his father, Philip O'Donoghue, an eminent barrister and the Government's legal adviser during the drafting of the Irish Constitution in the 1930s. - Is mise,
ANTHONY P.QUINN,
Law Library,
Dublin 7.