School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)
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- Clontuskert, Co. Galway
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“The wind blew steadily out of the north, and i could not go astray by holding in the teeth of it.”
12th May 1937The wind blew steadily out of the north, and I could not go astray by holding in the teeth of it. Before me was the empty spread of pasture-land, and beyond, that beech woods to the marshes of Suck: and beyond Suck I must be before morning.So, grasping cloud and sword under an arm, I struck the long slipping hillman gait, the huner's lope that eats the miles. The keen wind sharpened me, the thin rain freshened me: the dark was a friend of mine. A strange new gaiety came over me. It was splendid to be free again. But an hour ago had I stared into the weary horror of the dungeon and only now did I know- Collector
- Cláir Ní Mhaoláin
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