4 MARCH 1938, Page 23

CHANGING IRELAND

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I wonder what the old Irish soldier, of the type of Kipling's Terence Mulvaney, who knew and loved his country, as " Ould Oireland " would say at having now to call it Aire (which I understand rhymes with fairy, and, at the instigation of someone called De Valera.—Yours faithfully, Ex 18TH ROYAL IRISH.