Sir, – In your item headed “New Irish Writing – Hennessy Literary Awards: Winners through the decades” (Weekend Review”, January 24th) it is stated that Brian Friel was a judge with James Plunkett for the awards of 1972. This is in error. The short-story writer VS Pritchett, who died in 1997, was the other judge with Plunkett in that year. I recall meeting him, as I received the Hennessy for prose in 1972. – Yours, etc,
FRED JOHNSTON,
Galway.