Sir, - Uinsionn MacDubhgaill's "Out of the West" report (June 30th) on the Fourth International Women Playwright's Conference in Galway was misleadingly headlined to indicate that Irish women playwrights got "stage fright" and did not support the event. Among the Irish women playwrights whose courage showed no signs of deserting them, and who contributed richly, were Ivy Bannister, Patricia Burke Brogan, Margaretta Darcy, Emma Donoghue, Miriam Gallagher, Anne Le Marquand Hartigan, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Nesta Twomey, to mention a mere selection of names.
Irish Times readers might be interested to know that the conference was privileged to have as guest of honour Mary Manning, eminent playwright, critic and esteemed contributor to this newspaper. -Yours, etc.,
Cathy Leeney
UCD Drama Studies Centre
Blackrock, Co. Dublin