ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 28 April 1921, Page 28

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Reader. We should say that the Nation, the New Witness,' and the 'Daily News are the best friends Ireland has among British journals. For pity’s sake don’t imagine that any sane person counts the Otago Daily Times and such other ■ vapory gasbags among papers yyhpse opinions count for anything. Gael. The most important of the old Irish books are the Leabhar-na-h-IJidre, the Book of Leinster, the Book of BallymoteJ the Leabhar Breac, and the Book of Lecan —all written and composed for immemorial traditions before the year 1400. The Book of Lismore dates from the fifteenth century. The beautiful Gaelic tales are contained in these books. In English you can —more or less, briefly —the .tales in Joyce’s and Flood’s, volumes. You cannot understand old , (or even modern) Irish poetry until you know the old romances well. W.M.G. — received. It covers a deal of old ground arid is rather long. You are right. The horsewhipped parson, the P.P.Ass. lawyers, and the rabid tin-tem-plars do not like to be reminded of their war on / women. But they did not boycott the ghoul nor do they repudiate the crimes of the murderers of Mrs. Quinn in Ireland. One might say of them what Bill Brann said of one of their brethren in America some years ago, but we prefer to leave it as Bill said it. M.M. (Taranaki).—The .gentleman you refer to as Seagh ■ Buidhe is certainly a bad case, at present. Ireland gives it to him in both eyes, Egypt has given him a heart-attack, India gives him epileptic fits, and the English miners are causing him great gastric embarrassment. It would be all for his good did it make him . give up being a scoundrel.