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.
