<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1974 Aug 31st LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford151 Letter Honest Ulsterman, Denis Ireland, Frank Simmons, Frank Ormsby English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford151 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford151.jpg LHL Archive 36 H P M 31 August 1974 My dear Derek, The Dublin papers didn't arrive yesterday. The newsagents muttered something about 'a strike.'. As one might expect. So I cdn't get an I.T. I did pick up the latest HIB. They print my Keith Doyglas piece on their first review page and include me in their notes on contributors: "Ulster poet living in London." Fair enough. Latest H.U. arrived yesterday,a big 'double' issue. It contained a vicious attack on my friend Denis xxxxxx Ireland's "From the Belfast Jungle" by none other than J. Simmons - he founded the H.U., as you know. Poor old Denis, who was 80 recently,will be upset. He had a hell of a job getting the book pub- lished and I for one think it's really good - parts of it,esp his boyhood memories of Belfast upper-class society, brilliant. Simmons takes Hewitt and Ormsby (H.U. editor) to task for praising the book elsewhere and tells them they shouldn't review every book that comes Text