20 JULY 1996, page 25

The Real Irishman

Sir: I wonder whether Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (`The real Irish nationalism', 22 June) would care to reply to the fol- lowing quotation from Lord Carson, taken from Leave to......

Pronunciation To A T

Sir: Alan Watkins tells us Philip Hope-Wal- lace pronounced the t in Montrachet. But was he right to do so? There may be a mas- culine substantive trachet in the patois, so as......

Sacrificial Swap

Sir: Poor darling Rupert (Arts, 6 July). How he has suffered for his pleasure! He complains that, as your opera critic, he was seated in row H of the Covent Garden stalls `bang......

Dot-age

Sir: I am not in the habit of biting my tongue, but I must say during the recent speculation about my age (Letters, 29 June, 6 July and 13 July) the poor fleshy organ has been......

Accustomed Style

Sir: A small conference took place at Culzean Castle the other day attended by a number of Scottish companies both large and small and a representative from Lloyd's of London.......

Of Marches And Men

Sir: It is tendentious of Bruce Anderson to equate Orangemen marching through Catholic estates in Northern Ireland with Londoners putting up with the traffic dis- ruption caused......

Telegraph Trinity

Sir: Peter Stothard is correct when he specu- lates (Letters, 29 June) that I have not yet joined the ranks of 'the great and good'. However, I did derive some benefit from the......

Good, But Ugly

Sir: To A.R. Evans's daft idea (Letters, 15 June) of pictures. at the head of articles by your major contributors, a resounding no. I've seen most of them in other British......

Glyndebourne Gourmet

Sir: A few days ago I greatly enjoyed a perfor- mance of Yevgeny Onegin at Glyndebourne. This cannot be said about the dinner served in the Wallop restaurants. I can but agree......