The First Play I Wrote Was Called

It Is The Old Battle, Between Those Who Use A Toothbrush And Those Who Don't.

As To The Old History Of Ireland, The First Man Ever Died In Ireland Was Partholan, And He Is Buried, And His Greyhound Along With Him, At Some Place In Kerry.

Thomas Davis Was A Great Man Where Poetry Is Concerned, And A Better Than Thomas Moore. All Over Ireland His Poetry Is, And He Would Have Done Other Things But That He Died Young.

Many A Poor Soul Has Had To Suffer From The Weight Of The Debts On Him, Finding No Rest Or Peace After Death.

Once In My Childhood I Had Been Eager To Learn Irish; I Thought To Get Leave To Take Lessons From An Old Scripture-reader Who Spent A Part Of His Time In The Parish Of Killinane, Teaching Such Scholars As He Could Find To Read Their Own Language In The Hope That They Might Turn To The Only Book Then Being Printed In Irish, The Bible.