Sir, – “British and Craggy Isles”? – Yours, etc,
MIKE MORAN,
Dublin 3.
Sir, – Your correspondents moaning about the name of these isles in which we live are suffering from a massive inferiority complex. You don’t get our neighbours in the other part of the British Isles complaining about the Irish Sea. – Yours, etc,
STUART MURRAY,
Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin.
Sir, – My first lectures as an undergraduate at Trinity College over 30 years ago, were delivered by Prof Gordon Herries Davies in a class an American might term Geography 101.
The professor was sufficiently alert to realise that traditional reference to these islands could represent a difficulty for the changing demographic at Trinity and had settled on “Anglo-Celtic Archipelago”. – Yours, etc,
MICHAEL STAPLETON,
Clonskeagh, Dublin 14.