Sir, – The "darlin story, Willie Reilly and his own Colleen Bawn" referred to by Joxer Daly in Juno and the Paycock and mentioned by Fintan O'Toole ( Culture Shock, January 4th) was a story by William Carleton set in Tyrone. It was dramatised by a now forgotten writer called O'Neill and was popular with fit-up companies for over a century, well into the 1940s. It has nothing to do with Boucicault's million times superior play The Colleen Bawn (set in Kerry and inspired by Gerald Griffin's novel The Collegians) now being presented by the Druid Theatre Company. – Yours, etc,
CHRISTOPHER
FITZ-SIMON,
Sydenham Mews,
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Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.