Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

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.

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.