[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford171","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Sep 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford171","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"The Irish Times, Denis Ireland, Protestant Nationalist","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford171","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford171.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffclasses himself at Ealing and at one time was\npresident x of the Dublin Historical\nSociety;the sort of man who knows\neverybody of note in Dublin. Don't know\nhow or why he has ended up in Ealing.\nYr notes are/will be helpful.\n\nDid I tell you that my old friend\nDenis Ireland died (in Belfast) a week\nago ? He celebrated his 80th birthday\nnot long ago and he lived to read and\napprove my defence of his book against\nSimmons' attack - his last letter to me\nthanked me for x defending it- The IRISH\nTIMES gave him a long obit,with photos,\nand a 3rd leaderer. Don't know if he made\nit into THE TIMES. As a Protestant Nationalist,\nDenis swam against the stream in\nN.I. ever since he was demobbed (as\nCaptain in Royal Irish Fusiliers,\"the\nSkins\") at the end of World War I. x\n\nH.U. have taken another Fox - the\nChinese one.\n\nLove to you both\n- Robert\n\nx He was in the Senate (in Dublin) for a few years.\nIn middle age, with his white hair, he looked a bit like\nSENATOR W.B. Yeats!\n","Type":"Text"}}]