Sir, – I wonder if Frank McNally (“A gloomy trend in half a century of pop music”, An Irishman’s Diary, March 29th) would agree that not even Leonard Cohen could get you reaching for the antidepressants as quickly as Hank Snow, Lonnie Donegan and others who warbled about “Nobody’s Child”? – Yours, etc,
PATRICK HOWLIN,
Dublin 14.