Madam, - I was fascinated by Carla King's review of Jewish Dublin: Portraits of Life by the Liffey, by Asher Benson (Book Reviews, January 12th), along with the photograph of the old Jewish cemetery, off the main road just beyond Ballybough.
Readers may be interested to know of Ballybough-born poet Gerry McDonnell's collection, The Mud Island Elegy, with a foreword by the late painter Gerald Davis, which essentially strives to allow some of those interred there to speak for themselves, as it were. The late actor Brendan Cauldwell read some extracts at the book's launch.
The collection came out some time ago, published by Belfast's Lapwing Publications, and was revisited in a series of items for Lyric FM's Quiet Quarter.
Alas, the collection, inexplicably, did not receive any reviews. - Yours, etc,
FRED JOHNSTON, Carn Ard, Circular Road, Galway.