Sir, - Thank you for your edition of December 25/27th. A lazy Irish-American could watch the country out of the corner of an eye for eleven and a half months and still steal enough from your Review 97 to feel well supplied. Fintan O'Toole's essay on the sub-ecstatic condition of Irish prosperity was hard to pound into soundbite submission, and so was doubly welcome: brilliant, generous, discerning. - Yours, etc.,Conn Nugent,Editor Broadway,New York,USA.