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Saturday February 11 2012

• So Professor Kevin Kiely says that our President's latest book is "lame, stale and stilted", that he is no literary giant to be mentioned in the round with Shakespeare, Yeats, Kavanagh et al.

I think this is just small minded. Michael D is the king, he is the "Elfis" of Irish letters.

Paul W Phelan
Blackrock, Co Cork

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