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Excerpt from A Munster Twilight
With which shall I begin - man or place? Perhaps I had better first tell of the man; of him the incident left so withered that no sooner had I laid eyes on him than I said Here is one whose blood at some terrible moment of his life stood still, stood still and never after wards regained its quiet, old-time ebb-and-?ow. A word or two then about the place - a sculped-out shell in the Kerry mountains, an evil-looking place, green glaring like a sea when a storm has passed. To connect man and place together, even as they worked one with the other to bring the tragedy about, ought not then to be so difficult.
I had gone into those desolate treeless hills searching after the traces of an old-time Gaelic family that once were lords of them. But in this mountainy glen I forgot my purpose almost as soon as I entered it.
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With which shall I begin - man or place? Perhaps I had better first tell of the man; of him the incident left so withered that no sooner had I laid eyes on him than I said Here is one whose blood at some terrible moment of his life stood still, stood still and never after wards regained its quiet, old-time ebb-and-?ow. A word or two then about the place - a sculped-out shell in the Kerry mountains, an evil-looking place, green glaring like a sea when a storm has passed. To connect man and place together, even as they worked one with the other to bring the tragedy about, ought not then to be so difficult.
I had gone into those desolate treeless hills searching after the traces of an old-time Gaelic family that once were lords of them. But in this mountainy glen I forgot my purpose almost as soon as I entered it.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Daniel Corkery
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780266441014
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 156
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Daniel Corkery
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781331504603
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 158
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