Author: James B. Dollard

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780364242148

Excerpt from Irish Mist Sunshine: A Book of Ballads Dollard moreover possesses the quality which alone is wanting among the perfections of the New Curate namely, a wholehearted sym pathy with the national yearning of his peo ple. The simple explanation to me at least of the dismal fate of all the more or less Angli fied New Curate's projects for conquering the inveterate stagnation of the village life around him is his failure to appreciate the as pirations which are the people's terrestrial breath of life and the political conditions which set young men either tippling with J em Deady, or learning the goose-step by moonlight under the command of the village tailor. Father Dollard understands the tailor as well as the tippler and sees perfectly how a healthy national enthusiasm could regulate the ex cesses of both and render Irish life as full of manly energy as it is of national charm and poetic sensibility. His lyrics have done very much indeed to discourage the unnatural He gira from their native land which has tempted such myriads of the race from their wholesome mountain glens into the contamination of the. 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.