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“There are sides of all that western life, the groggy-patriot-publican-general-shop-man who is married to the priest's half sister and is second cousin once-removed of the dispensary doctor, that are horrible and awful This is the type that is running the present United Irish League anti-grazier campaign, while they're swindling the people themselves in a dozen ways and then buying out their holdings and packing whole families off to America.”
J.M. Synge in a letter to Stephen McKenna.
