It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
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.
Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.