School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)
- Location:
- Clontuskert, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029C, Page 08_083
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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.”
The 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 cloak and sword under an arm, I struck the long slipping hillman gait, the hunter'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 splended
- Collector
- Brighid Ní Bleíthin
- Gender
- Female