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From: Policy Studies Journal
Date: 20001222
Author:Crotty, William
The Ireland of Old and the Ireland of Today
Ireland is a study in contrasts, or so it might seem to those more familiar--or fascinated--with its past than its present. There is the Ireland of legend and song, the Ireland that produced W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, J. B. Synge, M. F. K. Fisher, Frank O'Connor, and countless others as part of a literary tradition that continues to this day. There is the Ireland of small farms and pastoral beauty, a land of tradition and romance, legends and beauty. There is the Ireland that is the ancestral home to-millions of expatriates and their ...
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