There's More Learning Than Is Taught In

There Is Many A Man Without Learning Will Get The Better Of A College-bred Man, And Will Have Better Words, Too.

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.

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.

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.

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.