Every Trick Is An Old One, But

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.

The First Play I Wrote Was Called 'twenty-five.' It Was Played By Our Company In Dublin And London, And Was Adapted And Translated Into Irish And Played In America.

We Would Not Give Up Our Own Country - Ireland - If We Were To Get The Whole World As An Estate, And The Country Of The Young Along With It.

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.

Everything That Is Bad, The Falling Sickness - God Save The Mark - Or The Like, Should Be At Its Worst At The Full Moon. I Suppose Because It Is The Leader Of The Stars.