Dr Barra Boydell, Co-General Editor, Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, writes:

I write on behalf of the editors and publishers of the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland to express our surprise that you saw fit in the March-April issue of JMI to publish Barra Ó Séaghdha’s hypothetical, negative criticism of the Encyclopaedia in the form of a personal diatribe against one of the general editors. It will be some time yet before the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland appears in print and until that time I would suggest that Mr Ó Séaghdha is in no position to pass judgement or comment on the contents of a project about which he has no detailed knowledge.