Letters to the Editor
  • DUTY ON OVERSEAS PARCELS
    Sir, - While I was waiting for a parcel to be delivered to me at the post office here on Christmas Eve . . . a poorly dressed man came in for a parcel addressed to him which was registered. On its being opened in his presence, a woolly cap and jacket for a baby was displayed and the charge of 2s 6d was demanded. The man stated sorrowfully that he was out of work and could not pay. He went away and the baby did not get the warm covering. Is it not time to make some concession for the season of Christmas? - Yours, etc.,

    EDITH BEALE,
    30 Barker Street,
    Waterford.
    From Thurs, January 1, 1931
  • THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
    Sir, - All good Irishmen will read with feelings of disgust of the disgraceful scenes that took place in the North as pilgrims left for the [ Eucharistic] Congress in Dublin. In contrast to this behaviour, here in Tipperary many of our Protestant friends put their wireless sets at the disposal of Catholics who were unable to travel to Dublin. In [ this] immediate vicinity two of the Protestant landowners entertained no less that three hundred men and women who would otherwise have been unable to take part in what was to them the greatest event in their lives. - Yours, etc.,

    "CATHOLIC",
    Co Tipperary.
    From Thurs, June 30, 1932
  • A WHITE SWALLOW
    Sir, - A pure white swallow or house martin has been flying around the village of Timahoe for the past few days. I watched it myself yesterday afternoon, flying gracefully around in company with other swallows and martins.

    Is this a rarity? I have never seen or heard of a white swallow. - Yours, etc.,

    MARCUS H COOPER, Clk,
    The Rectory,
    Timahoe, Leix.
    From Wed, July 12, 1933
  • ADMIRAL SOMERVILLE
    Sir, - May I beg the hospitality of your columns to express my gratitude, and that of members of my family, for the motions of sympathy as passed by many public bodies throughout Ireland, on the murder of my brother Vice- Admiral H.R.T. Somerville. R.N., C.M.G.

    . . . I understand that a statement has appeared in some newspapers to the effect that some members of my family were leaving the country to live elsewhere. To the best of my knowledge, with the exception of my brother's widow who, to our great regret, goes to live with her daughter in London, no other member of the family is leaving, and I have every intention of continuing to live here, on, I trust, the same friendly footing that, for many generations, has existed between my family and its neighbours in Castlehaven. - Yours, etc.,

    CAMERON F SOMERVILLE,
    Colonel,
    Drishane House,
    Skibbereen, Co Cork.
    From Wed, April 15, 1936
  • PHEASANTS
    Sir, - For some years the shooting of hen pheasants has been prohibited, so I was amazed to see 15 hen pheasants displayed in a central Dublin shop on Monday. What is the explanation? - Yours, etc.,

    "W.E.B.", Dublin
    From Thursday, Nov 19, 1959.

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