Letter from Joseph D. Brennan to Brian Durnin (Dublin)

Reference your note of 7th June (323/27/4)¹ in regard to ‘The Quiet Man’, I must say that ‘The Irish Independent’ let the movie down very lightly indeed. If it were to be taken completely at its face value it would be accepted as a rollicking farce and no harm done, but I fear it will be regarded by the Irish-American element here as purporting to portray actual life in Ireland. We may then have protests.

The Ambassador saw it at a private viewing, as did I, and he shares this viewpoint. We may, however, be unduly alarmed. We saw it before cutting and the finished version may lack some of the scenes to which exception might be taken.