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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
- Disclosure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020