<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1975 Oct 4th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford262 Letter Denis Ireland, Nationalism English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford262 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford262.jpg LHL Archive  27 Pembridge Crescent, W.11 Fri 4 Oct 75 replied:8th oct My dear Derek, Deny thanks yrs of yesterday. I'm glad you think the review seems suitable. The book is well produced and I hope it sells well. I was particularly interested in reading Davidson, He could have been a great poet IF. . . Yes,it’s hard to believe Denis I has gone. He was the sort whom one believed would always be there. And what a pity he spent his energies on politics in that "fool-driven land". Yeats was so right basically to eschew politics. (Writing about it in a distanced way is another cup of Irish coffee.) Do you know which book of Denis Ireland's you saw FROM THE IRISH SHORE perhaps ? Let me know what it is,as I may already have it. The only difficulty I had with Denis is that I rated him highly as a literary man and as the literary man he could have been. His politicking didn’t really interest me - some sort of mish-mash of nationalism and Social Credit. As you say, I must write something about him some time. (He's mentioned briefly in IRENE) I knew you wd hit it off with the affable Johnny St. J. The results of yr Text