The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

Quote by John Millington Synge

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A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement...

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement...

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of...

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of...

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile...

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile...

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of...

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of...

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a...

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a...

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one...

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one...

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life,...

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life,...

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or...

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or...

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation...

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation...

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a...

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a...

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself...

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself...

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said,...

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said,...

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of...

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of...