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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19970318
Author:Tuli Kupferberg

17 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORIES OF IRISH NATIONAL CHARACTER BY VARIOUS

HANDS (AND FEET)

1. The Irish have the best hearts in the three Kingdoms.

-HORACE WALPOLE, 1787

2. The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.

-SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775

3. The moment the verv name of Ireland is mentioned the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.

-REVEREND SYDNEY SMITH, 1808

4. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and referent credulity; are needed in this cold age of ...

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