[…] from the compact trope of the sea-divided Gael, to the poet's refusal of an Anglo-Saxon America because "you are not of the self-same race […]
The road brought invaders who left them hungry and dug up the dead. The road took living children away and made them dead to home. It was as if the roads were veins that bled off lifeblood but never pumped it back in.
Let us go back to January 25th, to Eckford Hall (Eckford and Calyer Street) for the 130th anniversary of Robert Burns, held by the Greenpoint Burns Club; and, since we are in the celebrationary mood, let us leap forward, on March 4th, to St. Anthony's Parish Hall, for the Celtic Association's commemoration of the birthday of Robert Emmet.
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
