See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt for Shapes in the form of Letters
The
Irish alphabet has 18 letters. It uses the Latin alphabet but omits eight letters used in English J K Q V W X Y and Z which are only used in loan words.
Oh no some letters are not going to make it onto the train
but these are on board and as the train speeds through the night to Scotland the traveling post office's workers are sorting them ready for the morning delivery. The full Auden poem with the night train steaming through the countryside in 1936 can be seen
here
