Sir, – Further to Frank McNally's Irishman's Diary on hay-making (July 6th), the speaker in Patrick Kavanagh's poem Lough Derg best describes the plight of the Irish hay-maker, when he notes: "A Leitrim man, with a face as sad as a flooded hay-field". – Yours, etc,
DAVID JAMESON,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.