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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

Lady Gregory
Country, Giving Up, World
Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection”, p.143, eBookIt.com

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

Lady Gregory
Running, Country, Charity
Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: Wonder and the supernatural”

I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

Lady Gregory
Country, Journey, Bravery
Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.540, eBookIt.com

What 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 Gregory
Country, Morning, People
Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.500, eBookIt.com

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