Sir, - Passing through Dublin on July 16th I happened to buy The Irish Times and read An Irishman's Diary, which on that day was about the growth of Irish studies in French universities. As a very modest contributor to this development, I felt very much gratified but could not fail to notice that among the academics mentioned by Andy Pollak, the name of Professor Jacqueline Genet of Caen University did not appear, which is to ignore the tremendous lot of work she has done in the field of Irish studies these twenty years.
Herself a Yeatsean scholar of high repute, she has organised almost single handed symposiums with such distinguished visitors as Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, John Montague, Mary Lavin, Sean MacBride, engaged students to study Irish writers and above all, assembled a team of colleagues who have produced a steady flow of essays and translations. She is now retired, but is still active behind the scenes and works now on an anthology of contemporary Irish writers. - Yours, etc.,
Honorary Maitre de Conferences,
Universite de Caen, France.