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Gaelic gripes

Published in General, Issue 6 (Nov/Dec 2007), Letters, Volume 15

Sir,

—Usually I read your magazine from cover to cover with enthusiasm and interest. However, the issue for July/August 2007 (Flight of the Earls ‘special’) contained two articles completely incomprehensible to me (pp 32–6, 52–5). I hope that these two articles do not create a precedent. As a monoglot anglophone I shall have to reassess the value of my subscription if you continue to publish in a language completely unknown to me.
IAN CHAPPLE
Australia

On this Day

April 16

1871 John Millington Synge, key figure in the Irish Literary Revival, co-founder of the Abbey Theatre and playwright, notably of The Playboy of the Western World, born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin.
1947 The expression ‘Cold War’, a war waged through proxies, was coined by the US statesman and millionaire financier Bernard Baruch.
1917 After twelve years in exile, the leading Russian Bolshevik, Vladimir Illyich Lenin (47), arrived in St Petersburg after a week-long journey from Zurich in a sealed train.
1862 Sir Thomas Wyse, politician and diplomat and major player in the struggle for Catholic Emancipation, died in Athens.
1660 Sir Hans Sloane, physician and collector, whose natural history collection formed the foundation of the British Museum, was born at Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down.

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