Madam, - Brian Walker is right to note (Opinion, November 22nd) how easily generations of Irish in America have switched from one religion to another.
Growing up in Dixie, I was at a convent school with so-called "Scots-Irish" girls who were Catholic.
Meanwhile, at the nearby Episcopal school there were girls from families with such Irish Gaelic names as O'Leary. Of course, they often dropped the "O" for social reasons.
I myself take Irish nationality from my Protestant Co Down family, the Denvers; but we all converted to Capitalism some years ago. - Yours, etc,
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MARY ELLEN SYNON,
Ballsbridge,
Dublin 4.