KATHLEEN FITZGIBBON says she has “one, if not two, advantages over Mr Lane.

KATHLEEN FITZGIBBON (Letters, August 29) says, “Miss [Elizabeth] Bowen and de Valera, whatever their differences, were both aware that the common enemy [in WWII] was fascism”.

THE letter from Jack Lane on the Trevor/Bowen Summer School in Mitchelstown and Farrihy, Kildorrery, Co Cork (August 20) gave an interesting side-view on a great Irish writer.