The poverty of secularist thinking

Sir, – Myles would be proud. Further to your recent correspondence, would it be too late to suggest a literary offshoot to The Gathering – The Concatenation?

Experts in verbosity and prolixity from around the world could be invited to attend a celebration of Ireland’s lingering attachment to Latinate forms. Perhaps even our President could be persuaded to make some remarks. We must address this poverty of secularist thinking by proving that Ireland can be the best small country in which to use big words. – Yours, etc,

ROBERT ELLIS,

Auburn Road,

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Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin.