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Updated: May 17, 2025
Made up and fashioned into Clinches, Bulls, Quirkes, Yerkes, Quips, and Jerkes. Apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of John Garrett's Ghost." such is the elaborate title of the collection of jests made by John Taylor, the Water Poet, which owes very little to preceding English jest-books.
"Ashes to ashes and dust to dust." It fell briskly on the shallow deal timber. "'Twas the land agitation, the fight for the land, that brought Martin Quirke down," said the official as the earth sprayed the pauper's coffin. "He was one of the first to go out under the Plan of Campaign the time of the evictions. They never got back their place. When the settlement came the Quirkes were broken.
Then they went home, each man to his virtuous couch, to dream fair dreams of the coming Paradise, when they and their kind may work their own sweet will, free from the fear of a hireling constabulary, and under the ægis of a truly national senate, given to a grateful country by a Grand Old Man. The Quirkes know their assailants, but they will not tell.
"Martin Quirke they are burying," he said. "Who was he?" "Didn't you ever hear tell of Martin Quirke?" "No, never." "A big man he was one time, with his acres around him and his splendid place. Very proud people they were he and his brother and very hot, too. The Quirkes of Ballinadee." "And now " I did not finish the sentence. The priest was spraying the coffin in the grave with the golden earth.
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