
"ALONG the north coast towards Gweedore and The Bloody Foreland the absence of men is remarkable. It is the women who carry the turf and dig the potatoes, which to those poor cottars are 'breakfast, dinner, and supper all the year round.'"
"THE fishermen of Connemara believe that an island not to be found by any voyage exists near their shore, and they call it the Other Country. That near and remote place is a symbol of Ireland. Giraldus Cambrensis wrote that Ireland 'was separated from the rest of the known world, and in some sort to be distinguished as another world'; and among its early names there were two that support that opinion, the Oldest Place and the Country at the End of the Earth." (go to contents page »)

Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker (Illustrated). Download the .prc file for Kindle or the .epub file for other tablets
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