Spring in the air

Madam, - In her otherwise excellent article on St Brigid's Day (Weekend Review, January 27th), Catherine Foley omitted to mention…

Madam, - In her otherwise excellent article on St Brigid's Day (Weekend Review, January 27th), Catherine Foley omitted to mention the beautiful Irish poem which celebrates the first day of spring:

Anois teacht an Earraigh

Beidh an lá dul chun shíneadh

Is tar éis na Féil' Bríde

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Ardóidh me mo sheol.

(Now with the coming of spring

The days will be stretching out

And after the Feast of Brigid

I will raise my sail).

After a long hard winter the bright days are with us again. - Yours, etc,

PETER MURRAY, Abbeydorney, Co Kerry.