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[Letters]Author(s): Trevor WestSource: Fortnight, No. 57 (Mar. 2, 1973), p. 23Published by: Fortnight Publications Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25544489 .

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FORTNIGHT 23

of the suitability, let alone desirability, of

printing Oscar Wilde's prose poems on

black paper, but this is the only book that is not thoroughly pleasant.

The pottery is simple in design often with fine detail like tiny crenellated edge and in good usable colours?strong

browns, sand, black, orange.

Fancy runs riot in her embroideries?to

gay effect in "Ondine" and "Arabesque"

and to something more in "Waterloo"

which has the refinement of an abstract.

Sharing the Octagon Gallery with her is Lawson Burch, an artist with a strong

feeling for pattern. He likes to break up

the details of his composition, re-form

them almost cubistically at times and

sometimes to emphasise the shapes by the

use of startling colour contrast as in

"Farm Under Donard" (No. 12) where

the pattern element is carried even farther

by the introduction of a kind of ribbing on

the hills. "Little Hills near Dromara" (No.

6) employs a very bright purple and green

in the twin configurations. On occasion he prefers a lighter and

more loose picture and the result can be

almost poetic as in "Summer Day" Day, Mourne" (No. 14).a suffusion of primrose or a painting of an old man so bathed in

sunshine as to be almost indistinguishable

(No. 16).

Ray Rosen fie Id

Sir,

Your issue of February 1st deals with

two matters of great importance to the

future of this island.

The first concerns the representation of

Sinn Fein in the forthcoming General Election in Northern Ireland, and by the time of the Election, may well apply to

loyalist groups also.

There is no doubt that there is, in certain areas of the North, overwhelming

support for Sinn Fein. The violence

originating in these areas will never end

until Sinn Fein is recognised as a properly

constituted political party and until this

recognition is turned in to concrete

representation in the legislative assembly.

The Whitelaw administration must change its policy and accept the fact that the way

to turn gunmen into peaceable citizens is

to give their political leaders responsibility and power.

The second issue you raise is the

possibility of obtaining integrated education. Your article is to be

commended for taking a balanced view of

the past and present for pointing out that,

contrary to appearances, the Protestant

Churches are just as responsible for the

current situation as are the Roman

Catholics. Effective change can only occur

if there is a simultaneous climb down by both sides accompanied by an admission

all round that the previous policies

pursued by all denominations have

contributed to the serious divisions in the

Norhern community. You point out that the problem is

basically a political rather than a religious one. However the churches will continue

to play a political role in this country for

some time to come. A genuine movement

by them in the right direction?even the

admission that segregated education is a

real problem?would unfreeze the

situation and encourage politicians on the

road to reform.

Yours faithfully, TREVOR WEST

Seanad Eireann, Dublin.

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