Sir, - Brian O'Nolan thought it was bad being liked by the English (An Irishman's Diary, May 20th) Happy days, when that was all we had to worry about. Now it is hard to meet anyone who doesn't like you in advance for being Irish.
Now, I am eager to please, and don't want to be ungrateful, but I keep disappointing people. I blame the wave of Irish pubs that has chased me in my mad flight across Europe. The latest one to open here in Graz is The Flann O'Brien. Help! A man could be seized by "a restless tottering unquiet, a hatred of the places he knew and a desire to be where he never was . . ." - Yours, etc., Ben Hemmens,
Graz, Austria.