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AQUA VITAE

Native Irishman though he is, Bill Whelan is wrong about “Riverdance” being Gaelic for “water of life” (“The Jig Is Up,” by Sean Mitchell, Nov. 3).

That’s uisgebeata, the Gaelic word for “whiskey.”

TOM STAPLETON

Glendale

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