Letters about Ireland
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ACTUALLY it had been my wish to write letters from Ireland; after all, it would take me only a few paltry hours to get there; why I do not go is not quite clear even to myself. I think that it is the fault of the Irish question.
I have submitted the Irish question to nearly all Englishmen, Scots, Cymri and Gaels whom I have met; I have asked them what I really ought to see in Ireland and what I should aim at there; it seemed to me that this question was somehow un pleasant to them. They told me that I would do better to go to Oxford or Stratford or to the seaside. And this inflamed my curiosity all the more.
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