The 'Battle of Baltinglass'

Madam, - Joe Carroll's Irishman's Diary of March 15th brings to mind The Green Boxeen, a three-act play written in 1956 by Patrick…

Madam, - Joe Carroll's Irishman's Diary of March 15th brings to mind The Green Boxeen, a three-act play written in 1956 by Patrick Kelly. This now almost forgotten comedy gives a thinly veiled account of the "Battle of Baltinglass".

Isn't it time it was resurrected and staged once again? - Yours, etc,

MATTIE LENNON, Lacken, Blessington, Co Wicklow.