THE SAINT FRANK O'CONNOR I had been ill in Cork, and Russell, distrusting all Cork people, including doctors, had made me come to Dublin and get examined by his own doctor, Frank Purser, the...
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273 THE HERMITAGE {From the Irish of the 9th and 10th Centuries) Grant me sweet Christ the grace to find— Son of the living God!— A small hut in a lonesome spot To make it my abode. A little...
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561 The Old Woman of Beare Translation of Frank O'Connor. (The Old Woman of Beare has been called "the greatest of Irish poems." Written somewhere about the tenth century, 500 years before...
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