chayracther

Updated: June 17, 2025

I say the Irish peasantry are superior in intellect, conduct, and chayracther, and that in following the priest they are acting as reasonable as your British working-man, who follows his strike leaders and trade agitators, and is perpetually cutting off his nose to spite his face. No, we shall not get Home Rule now, but we must have it later on. Then we shall demand more.

Robert John Buckley - Ireland as It Is: And as It Would be Under Home Rule