Madam, - In his Irishman's Diary of March 13th, Wesley Boyd posed the question: "Where are the name plates for James Joyce, Beckett, Kavanagh, Heaney, Le Brocquy, etc, on the streets, avenues and roads of Ireland?" The saints and the patriots, he averred, had snaffled all the best places.
Well, modestly, may I point out that in Park West, our business park in culturally unfashionable west Dublin, we have tried to commemorate scholars, writers and artists by naming most of our thoroughfares after a selection of them. Thus we can boast Yeats Way, Beckett Way, Joyce Way, Heaney Avenue, Hume Avenue, Lavery Avenue, Friel Avenue, Kavanagh Avenue, Le Brocquy Avenue, Banville Avenue, Henry Road and O'Casey Avenue.
They are neither boulevards nor grand promenades, but they are an effort to salute our artistic heritage. - Yours, etc,
MIKE MURPHY,
Harcourt Developments,
Harcourt Street,
Dublin 2.