Sir, - Of all the apt quotations relating to the New Year ahead, this must be the aptest: It is an extract from a letter republished in Sixteen Self Sketches'. "Only the other day it was proposed to me that I should help my downtrodden country by assembling with other Irishmen to romance about 1798. I do not take the slightest interest in 1798. Until Irishmen apply themselves to what the condition of Ireland is to be in 1998 they will get very little patriotism out of Yours Sincerely." (G.B. Shaw, London, 1898.) - Yours, etc.,
From John Loesberg
Mayfield, Cork.