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Updated: May 4, 2025
We have not forgotten, shall never forget, our Connemara folk, nor yet Omadhaun Pat and dark Timsy of Lisdara in the north; but it is good, for a change, to breathe in this sense of general comfort, good cheer, and abundance.
'Pearly are the skies in the country of my fathers, Purple are thy mountains, home of my heart; Mother of my yearning, love of all my longings, Keep me in remembrance long leagues apart. I have been thinking in this strain because of an old dame in the first cabin in Lisdara row, whose daughter is in America, and who can talk of nothing else.
With the two golden sovereigns given her to spend, she has bought scissors, knives, hammers, boards, sewing materials, knitting needles, and yarn, everything to work with, and nothing to eat, drink, or wear, though Heaven knows there is little enough of such things in Lisdara. "The quicker you wear 'em out, the better you'll suit me," she says to the awestricken Lisdarians.
Then passages were cut through the woods, and the policy of felling them, as a military measure, was begun and carried forward on a gigantic scale in Elizabeth's reign. At one of the cabins along the road they were making great preparations, which we understood from having seen the same thing in Lisdara.
There are a few cleaner and more comfortable homes in Lisdara and Knockcool than when we came, and Benella has been invaluable, although her reforms, as might be expected, are of an unusual character, and with her the wheels of progress never move silently, as they should, but always squeak.
At tea-time, and again after our simple dinner for Bridget Thunder's repertory is not large, and Benella's is quite unsuited to the Knockcool markets we wend our way to a certain house that stands by itself on the road to Lisdara.
She shows us the last letter, with its postal order for sixteen shillings, that Mida sent from New York, with little presents for blind Timsy, 'dark since he were three years old, and for lame Dan, or the 'Bocca, as he is called in Lisdara. * Saint Mide, the Brigit of Munster.
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