Madam, - Fiona McCann, in her article "The feminist fight is far from over" (Weekend Review, October 25th), tells us she will be going to hear many of the "established voices" in the Irish Women's movement this Thursday.
I wonder how many of these "established" women, from the Labour Party, Sinn Féin, the trade union movement, private consultancies or academia, who are asking us to join them in this Feminist Open Forum, are truly prepared to forgo their hard-earned toeholds in the establishment and their appropriate salaries, by following through the implications of the crucial question posed by a feminist writer at a similar event as long ago as 1852? "My friends, do we realise for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?" (Elizabeth Oakes Smith.) - Yours, etc,
MARGARETTA D'ARCY,
St Bridget's Place Lower,
Galway.