[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford310","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford310","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Catholic, The Irish Press, Eamon DeValera","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford310","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford310.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNo. 27 P.C\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nMany thanks to you and P for your lovely\nbirthday card.\n\nI've news for you - see enclosed. I know\nnothing about this Brian Fallon (except that\nhe isn't related to Peter Fallon of Gallery\nPress - a fairly common Catholic Irish name).\nWhat I've just said makes a point. Even\nfairly recently the I.T. was rather Anglo-\nIrish ,now it's almost wholly \"native Irish\u201d.\nWhen I was in my 20's the lit ed was ,for\ninstance, Bruce Williamson, from a B'fast\nProtestant family and educated at Shrewsbury.\nThe IRISH PRESS ,on the other hand (started by\nde Valera) has always been 99% Catholic Irish,\nbut are liberal enough to accept a Jew as\nlit ed. Ironically,! have always had better\ntreatment frcm the I.P. than the I.T. although\nin theory it should be the other way round.\n\nI rather enjoy these ironical situations. The\nonly truly vicious attack on me in print came\nfrcm Williamson with whom,up to then, I had\nbeen on very good terms. I think I can say it\ncame from sheer jealousy as x my poems were\nappearing everywhere and his weren't. Still\non the I.T. he has never published a book of\nany kind, and I've been told he has long been\nan alcoholic. IT's all so long ago I bear him\nno ill-will. He had a decisive influence on\nmy life. I was a bit undecided whether to stay\non in Dublin or come to London - Patricia\nsaid she would do whatever I wished. So I\ndecided to leave. Of course I might have left\nlater on,anyway.\n\nInterested in yr views on German writers.\n","Type":"Text"}}]