A chara, – I’ve just received my new passport and I see there are images of Ireland on all of its pages – and very nice they are too. Page 19 is devoted to “Irish” instruments, they being what appear to be whistles and flute, banjo, accordion, fiddle, bodhrán and harp. There are also the inevitable dancing shoes.
Could it be that the artist commissioned for this job is not aware of the ultimate instrument in Irish music, namely, the uilleann pipes? – Is mise,
KEVIN CONNEFF,
Hollywood, Co Wicklow.