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.
Lady GregoryMy husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went throughโ to be two months without going into a houseโ under the snow in trenches. And no food to getโ maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food thereโ he saidโ to feed all Ireland; but bad managementโ they could not get it.
Lady GregoryWhat the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
Lady GregoryIt was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
Lady Gregory