And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
A woman and girl walk through a honeycomb of stone walls to get water from a pump, Inishmaan, the Aran Islands, 1971
I cannot imagine how rocky the soil must have been for the ancient Irish. If it had been me, I would have given up, boarded a ship and headed to America.
My thinking is rocks in the gardens have to go somewhere, or no one likes their neighbors
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine how rocky the soil must have been for the ancient Irish. If it had been me, I would have given up, boarded a ship and headed to America.
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