Reader
Niall
McDonagh,
, wants to shake Mr Irving’s hand on regaining his ill-deprived freedom

Wants to shake a hand …

CONGRATULATIONS firstly on regaining your ill-deprived freedom.

While prison broke Oscar Wilde, you seem to have hit the ground running! Public speaking in Budapest, interviews in Kraków, home-hunting in London. You are truly a one-man phenomenon . . . but of course that has always been your trademark.

During your illegal detention in Austria I sent you a subscription to The Spectator, which
I’m not sure you ever received. You appeared in its pages during your detention. Taki the columnist [Taki Theodoracopulos] mentioned you calling him from prison! Rod Liddle also blasted your persecutors.

Stimulating reading material was the only thing
I could think of sending beyond posting you empty words of encouragement during your darkest hours.

Perhaps on second thoughts I should have done the latter. I just didn’t know what to say.

I have read most of your books and always with awe: Nuremberg and Uprising
being favourites alongside the epic Hitler’s
War and Goebbels.
Some of the lines in Uprising
keep coming back to me —

  • the extinction of common manners under
    Communism    ,
  • the hesitating citizens stepping from the
    sidewalks and into history
    . . .

fantastic stuff.

Anyway, without seeking to keep you longer, do you have any idea as to when and where you might be seen live in the next 6 months? It is one of my ambitions to shake your hand . . . and get an autograph!!

I live in Saudi Arabia so I can’t just wander over and camp outside Focal Point HQ! You have already lived five lives over so I need to catch you live before you retire! Thank you again for all the precious and pleasant times you have given so many who dare to believe that there is intellectual life outside the ‘box’.

Niall
McDonagh
Dhahran
Middle
East

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