27 AUGUST 1988, Page 22

Joyceballs

Sir: P.J. Chisholm (Letters, 23 July) may be interested to learn that James Joyce refers to the game of ball-ball in Finnegans Wake (published 1939): `fiounaregal gaame of those oathmassed fenians%

John O`Byme

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