Sir, – I wish Brian Boyd well, in his new persona “Lars” (“Why I sometimes pretend that I am not Irish on my holidays”, are more welcoming than questioning. – Yours, etc,
KATE CUDMORE
Douglas,
Cork.
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Sir, – Was Brian Boyd's Danish alter-ego Lars cover not blown when he couldn't recite Hamlet? Or when he failed to provide plausible answers as to whether the little mermaid was a real person, or how he feels when he eats a Danish?
Believing our faults to be uniquely Irish is misguided and apt for stereotyping in itself.
– Yours, etc,
SHANE GOLDEN
Rathgar, Dublin 6 .