Madam, - As grandsons of Dr Eoin MacNeill, the first holder of the chair of early and medieval Irish history at UCD, and a pioneer scholar in the field, and as sons of Dr Michael Tierney, third president of UCD, responsible for the move to the Belfield campus, we would like to join the distinguished scholars and academics who wrote to you (March 13th) in deploring the discontinuance of early and medieval Irish as a full degree subject.
This is a most retrograde development and must inevitably diminish the stature of UCD among institutes of higher learning. - Yours, etc,
MICHAEL TIERNEY, Morehampton Place, Dublin 4; Dr NIALL TIERNEY, Morehampton Terrace,
Dublin 4; MARTIN TIERNEY, Marlborough Road, Glenageary, Co Dublin; MYLES TIERNEY,
Pine Valley, Dublin 16; DENIS TIERNEY, Slaney Meadows, Rathvilly, Co Carlow.