‘Some of it will be missed; the part that cannot be put into words.’
Reposted from London Review of Books
‘In 1870, the year before Synge was born, only 3 per cent of Irish farmers, peasants or not, owned their own land; the rest were tenants. Within sixty years, the ratio had been reversed.’

Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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