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... Irish people . In certain of their works the outlines of an ideal nation are discernible . Yeats , for example ... Irish people , clearly enough , is that they practice the virtue of humane love . The verse of the Rising poets , Pearse ...
... Irish people . In certain of their works the outlines of an ideal nation are discernible . Yeats , for example ... Irish people , clearly enough , is that they practice the virtue of humane love . The verse of the Rising poets , Pearse ...
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... Irish nation , A.E. writes : " No policy can succeed if it be not in accord with national character . If I have misjudged that , what is written here is vain . " 39 What A.E. advocated in The National Being was a kind of rural socialism ...
... Irish nation , A.E. writes : " No policy can succeed if it be not in accord with national character . If I have misjudged that , what is written here is vain . " 39 What A.E. advocated in The National Being was a kind of rural socialism ...
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... Irish race and nation that had held to its faith despite centuries of oppression . The Rising poets and , indeed , many of their contemporaries seem to have considered the Irish to be a kind of chosen people , like the early Christians ...
... Irish race and nation that had held to its faith despite centuries of oppression . The Rising poets and , indeed , many of their contemporaries seem to have considered the Irish to be a kind of chosen people , like the early Christians ...
Contents
The National Ideals | 3 |
The Holy Land of Ireland | 4 |
The Land of Promise | 5 |
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