goodness-knows-what

Updated: May 29, 2025

Before the Nationalists we had the Fenians, the Whiteboys, the Ribbon-men, the United Irishmen, the Defenders, the goodness-knows-what, running back in continuous line up to the dawn of history. No wonder we are poor. Cannot Gladstonians read the records?

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