There Is Lasting Kindness In Heaven When

From The Sons Of Ith, The First Of The Gael To Get His Death In Ireland, There Came In The After Time Fathadh Canaan, That Got The Sway Over The Whole World From The Rising To The Setting Sun, And That Took Hostages Of The Streams And The Birds And The Languages.

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.

In The Whole Course Of Our Work At The Theatre We Have Been, I May Say, Drenched With Advice By Friendly People Who For Years Gave Us The Reasons Why We Did Not Succeed... All Their Advice, Or At Least Some Of It, Might Have Been Good If We Had Wanted To Make Money, To Make A Common Place Of Amusement.

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.

There's More Learning Than Is Taught In Books.