Talk:Shevawn Lynam

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Betjeman[edit]

I removed the false claim that Lynam is described in Betjeman's verse autobiography Summoned By Bells. The book ends with Betjeman leaving Oxford, without a degree, in 1928, when Lynam was 14 and Betjeman had never met her. Even the poem 'Cricket Master', added in later editions, only takes the story up to 1929. Lynam possibly acted as secretary to Betjeman (among others) at the Ministry of Information in London in 1940, but the anonymous Irish Times article signed 'JL' in reference 3 is nonsense. It claims that Betjeman became High Commissioner in Dublin in 1941 -- he didn't, he was the press attache, and with all due regard to the Wiki rule of 'verifiability, not truth', when an 'RS' claim is obvious and ridiculous bunk, then the article shouldn't reproduce it. The same article claims that Betjeman's autobiography (and he only wrote one, Summoned By Bells) praises Lynam's gift for languages. It doesn't, because, again, Betjeman had never set eyes on Lynam in the period covered by the book. Khamba Tendal (talk) 18:18, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]