Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. -Douglas Hyde

 

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.


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How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly such a question as this and the answer to it that shows the difference between the English and Irish race. Nine Englishmen out of ten would jump to make the exchange, and I firmly believe that nine Irishmen out of ten would indignantly refuse it.

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Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

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The literary activity of even the eighteenth century among the Gaels was very great.

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I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

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For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality.

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